Chemically, carbon dioxide is incredibly simple – it is just one carbon atom linked with two oxygen atoms. Together they create a colorless gas that makes up just a tiny fraction of the Earth's ...

Where would carbon-based life be without carbon? There are 118 known chemical elements, but carbon is the fourth most abundant and perhaps the most important to human life. Everywhere you look, ...

The window to prevent catastrophic climate change is closing. Concentrations of planet-warming carbon pollution in the air are at their highest level in more than 2 million years – and the world has ...

Determining a carbon footprint is easier said than done, and it’s not clear how much weight we should put on it. One way to gain a quantifiable understanding of the impacts of our actions, for good ...

I have a couple of friends from my days in the interbank forex market who have been involved in a slew of business ventures together. What they have typically done is to chase the latest trend in ...

Gov. Mike Dunleavy signs SB 48 into law, opening the door for Alaska to enter the carbon offset market. (Kavitha George/AKPM) Can Alaska make money by protecting its state lands? Gov. Mike Dunleavy ...

Measuring a company's greenhouse gas emissions has numerous benefits Matt Webber is an experienced personal finance writer, researcher, and editor. He has published widely on personal finance, ...

Blue Carbon refers to organic carbon captured and stored by the ocean in vegetated coastal ecosystems such as mangrove forests, saltmarshes or seagrass meadows. In these Blue Carbon ecosystems, ...

Every year, especially during hurricane season, the warnings go out: Don't use generators inside or near your house because of the risk for carbon monoxide poisoning. And most people also know about ...

Carbon monoxide poisoning is a serious occurrence that can cause severe damage to your health and can even result in death. It's most common in the winter months, as this is when we run devices that ...