New Commons app is designed to help people lower their carbon footprint.

Open access notables From this week's government and NGO section, Flaws in EPA’s Monitoring and Verification of Carbon Capture Projects, Preet Bains, Environmental Integrity Project (pdf): The author examined one central component of carbon capture and seque…

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The fastest, safest, and least expensive way to limit warming over the next two decades is to cut methane, a super climate pollutant 80 times more powerful in warming than carbon dioxide.

A coalition of more than 1,600 scientists, including Nobel winners, recently debunked the idea that climate change – or global warming as it was known before the warming stopped – is a worldwide emergency. The declaration from scientists from all around the g…

[allAfrica] Cape Town -- When you hear the word "fossil" what generally comes to mind? Old bones, right? The bones of dinosaurs and other animals, and maybe you'd even call to mind the ancient remains of our human ancestors. The point is that it's really old.…

In the face of accelerating natural disasters and the slow state of climate negotiations, new diplomatic efforts to rein in fossil fuels are being developed. Will it be enough to avoid catastrophe?

Open access notables The distortionary effects of unconstrained for-profit carbon dioxide removal and the need for early governance intervention, Grubert & Talati, Carbon Management: We argue that the emerging tendency toward market-based, unconstrained, and…