Carbon Dioxide

News Corp. Begins Keeping Tabs of All Its CO2 Emissions

treehugger.com | Posted 11.20.2009 | Green


News Corp. - owner of Fox News, the Wall Street Journal and numerous other media properties - is adding software to help manage its environmental impa...

Peat: A Climate Threat, Rising From The Soil

washingtonpost.com | Andrew Higgins | Posted 11.19.2009 | Green


Peat, formed over thousands of years from decomposed trees, grass and scrub, contains gigantic quantities of carbon dioxide, which used to stay locked...

Carbon Management: A Call to Action for the U.S. and China

Scott Daniels | Posted 11.15.2009 | Green


Scott Daniels

As President Obama prepares to set foot on Chinese soil for the first time today, the United States and China, the globe's leading greenhouse gas producers, are engaged in a classic standoff.

Energy Bookshelf: Ten More Worth Your Time Than Super Freaky Crap

A. Siegel | Posted 11.17.2009 | Green


A. Siegel

The authors of Superfreakonomics super(freaky)star status means that they and their travesty of a book will get attention despite its non-truthful truthiness and misleading mediocrity on climate-change.

Scientists Propose Engineering The Atmosphere To Cool Planet

Mother Nature Network | Katherine Butler | Posted 11.02.2009 | Green


Love the blue skies that greet you on a sunny day? Don't get too used to it. Scientists have proposed a last-resort solution to climate change. It inv...

Colorado Air Division Thumbs Nose at Governor Ritter

Jeremy Nichols | Posted 10.27.2009 | Denver


Jeremy Nichols

The Colorado Air Pollution Control Division rejected calls to keep CO2 emission in check at the Valmont coal-fired power plant in Boulder. Are there any limits on carbon in Colorado?

Interactive Map: How A 4 Degree Temperature Rise Will Affect The Planet

guardian.co.uk | Posted 10.27.2009 | Green


A map launched at the Science Museum in London has been developed using the latest peer-reviewed science from the Met Office Hadley Centre and other l...

In Support of 350, It's Myth Bustin' Time: "Carbon Dioxide is Just a Trace Gas, Big Deal"

Jeff Goldstein | Posted 10.26.2009 | Green


Jeff Goldstein

For all those that do not want to pay homage to CO2, I say -- stop eating. Or at least stop throwing around the expression "trace gas" so loosely.

SuperFreakonomics Authors Forced To Answer Critics

Posted 10.19.2009 | Books


Since we posted the video and teaser for SuperFreakonomics, the follow up to the bestseller Freakonomics, there's been an outcry from scientists over ...

Google Maps Earth's Carbon Cycle

treehugger.com | Posted 11.22.2009 | Green


Google Earth has a new application that shows carbon dioxide in different layers of the earth's atmosphere....

Can Condoms Fight Climate Change?

washingtonpost.com | David A. Fahrenthold | Posted 11.15.2009 | Green


To heck with carbon dioxide. A new study performed by the London School of Economics suggests that, to fight climate change, governments should focus ...

Australia Overtakes U.S. As Biggest Polluter: Report

AFP | Posted 11.11.2009 | World


SYDNEY (AFP) �" Australians have overtaken Americans as the world's biggest individual producers of carbon dioxide, which is blamed for global warmi...

BMW Decides Formula One Is Bad for the Environment

Mairi Beautyman | Posted 09.10.2009 | Green


Mairi Beautyman

According to Reuters, luxury car manufacturer BMW has decided to take the high road, with a commitment to withdraw from Formula One by the end of 2009.

The Nation's Energy Expert Speaks Out on Climate...Not

Bill Chameides | Posted 08.15.2009 | Green


Bill Chameides

It blows my mind that someone could write a critique of a bill designed to address climate change and never once mention the word "climate."

Understanding Why Climate Change is Human-Induced: A Day in the Life of the Earth

Jeff Goldstein | Posted 08.14.2009 | Green


Jeff Goldstein

Every Geologic Day is absolutely inconsequential relative to Earth's lifetime. After all, Earth has 27,394 of them.

India To Reject Curbing CO2 Emissions

e360.yale.edu | Posted 08.02.2009 | Green


India will not accept limits on its greenhouse gas emissions at climate talks later this year and instead will focus on economic growth and lifting it...

How Will This Weekend's Fireworks Affect You?

Mother Nature Network | Posted 08.01.2009 | Green


Fourth of July fireworks unleash a shower of toxins into the soil and water, and scientists are only beginning to figure out what that means for human...

Obama Administration Proposes Tougher Clean Air Standards

AP | H. JOSEF HEBERT | Posted 08.01.2009 | Green


WASHINGTON — (AP) _ The Obama administration is proposing to strengthen a key air pollution health standard. The Environmental Protection Agenc...

Crops Could Get Toxic If Climate Continues To Warm

Reuters | Posted 07.30.2009 | Green


Staples such as cassava on which millions of people depend become more toxic and produce much smaller yields in a world with higher carbon dioxide lev...

Climactic But Not Just Because Of The Climate

Harry Moroz | Posted 07.27.2009 | Politics


Harry Moroz

The American Clean Energy and Security Act establishes a market-based cap-and-trade system to limit emissions of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide.

Time for the Gigaton Throwdown!

Larry Coben | Posted 07.24.2009 | Green


Larry Coben

Tomorrow in Washington, the Gigaton Throwdown releases its long awaited report on how to remove a gigaton of CO2 from our atmosphere while building an...

Government Report: US Emissions Projected to Tank ~3.5% in '09

Dennis Markatos | Posted 07.11.2009 | Green


Dennis Markatos

The US Energy Information Agency has further lowered its emissions projection for '09, due to lower coal consumption based on a drop in demand for fuel and the substitution of coal for natural gas.

Change In Diet Could Curb Cows' Carbon Emissions

nytimes.com | LESLIE KAUFMAN | Posted 07.06.2009 | Green


Libby, age 6, and the 74 other dairy cows on Guy Choiniere's farm here are at the heart of an experiment to determine whether a change in diet will he...

Why the Peapod Will Change America and Save Chrysler in the Process

Joshua Schoen | Posted 05.30.2009 | Green


Joshua Schoen

With the Chrysler group in dire straits, the Peapod might be the magic elixir that will save the company by becoming the most relevant form of transportation for the new generation.

The Cause of Global Warming -- Put Down That Pie!

Ken Levine | Posted 05.25.2009 | Green


Ken Levine

Get out your aerosol spray cans, they're not the problem after all! Scientists now know the real cause of Global Warming: Fat people.