Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. No matter how responsibly we try to live, it's impossible not to create pollution in some way. How we eat, how we power our homes, ...

Carbon offsets have become big business as more companies make promises to protect the climate but can’t meet the goals on their own. When a company buys carbon offsets, it pays a project elsewhere to ...

The next time you buy a plane ticket or get a package delivered, you might see a pop-up on the website: the chance to buy a carbon offset with your purchase. That offset is basically a promise, says ...

Academics at the University of Oxford and the University of Pennsylvania have conducted the most comprehensive review of evidence on the effectiveness on carbon offsetting to date and concluded the ...

Duke recently achieved carbon neutrality — but this doesn’t mean the University’s emissions equal zero. In reality, this historic achievement was made possible by both emissions reductions and the ...

A solar farm along the Pastaza River in Ecuador’s rainforest on April 14, 2023. (Misha Vallejo Prut for The Washington Post) Most major airlines now offer customers an add-on to their ticket purchase: ...

The aviation industry is facing a critical challenge: a shortage of airline carbon credits and there’s a very high probability that it’ll result in more expensive airfares. But what is a carbon offset ...

Penn researchers jointly published a paper with academics at the University of Oxford that found the practice of carbon offsets inefficient. The paper — put out in the Annual Review of Environment and ...

As the impacts of climate change grow increasingly severe, more and more products and services are being marketed to travelers to help offset one’s carbon footprint. Among the most common is carbon ...

An Arkansas company using long-term forestry practices to offset carbon emissions had its first project in Louisiana verified for the sale of carbon credits and has already begun making sales, company ...

Thailand's carbon economy shift in 2026: carbon markets and EU CBAM push exporters to report product footprints, strengthen MRV, and stay ...