Human activity—mostly the burning of fossil fuels—has raised Earth’s atmospheric carbon content by 50 percent, from 280 parts per million (ppm) to 420 ppm. Since the start of the Industrial Revolution ...

HOLYOKE — Like many people, Michael Garjian believes global warming is a pressing issue of our times. Unlike most, he’s putting his ideas for reducing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere into practice — ...

This transcript has been edited for length and clarity. Every few years, the world’s top scientists come up with hundreds of different scenarios, all aimed at limiting global warming to 2 degrees ...

Climeworks got third-party sign-off on its technology for sucking carbon dioxide out of the sky. Carbon removal is a key climate fix because greenhouse-gas emissions aren't dropping fast enough.

NEW YORK (AP) — On a field ringed by rolling green hills in Iceland, fans attached to metal structures that look like an industrial-sized Lego project are spinning. Their mission is to scrub the ...

The Biden administration is throwing its weight behind technology that sucks planet-warming carbon dioxide out of the air, selecting the first winners of a $3.5-billion fund dedicated to developing ...

A new study shows combining nature-based and tech-based carbon removal, with smart risk management, can stabilize Earth’s ...

On the edge of the Mojave Desert, 60 miles north of Los Angeles, a new water treatment plant will turn wastewater into drinking water. The plant will also test something new: removing CO2 from the ...

The Orca plant in Iceland, the largest direct air capture plant in the world. Photo: HALLDOR KOLBEINS/AFP (Getty Images) A group of powerful companies on Monday announced a new venture to suck carbon ...

Just northeast of Denver, a big new facility topped with giant industrial fans is sucking carbon dioxide directly from the sky. The machine is ostensibly one of the largest “direct air capture” units ...

The money will be used to construct four different "hubs" nationwide to suck carbon dioxide out of the air and permanently store it. Reading time: Reading time 4 minutes The federal government is ...

Cleaning up greenhouse gases after they have been emitted should be incentivized by subsidies. New evidence from an economic analysis considering international markets suggests an important reason why ...