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, and how we get around create some amount of pollution. But just ...

Editor’s note: This article, distributed by The Associated Press, was originally published on The Conversation website. The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you go to a pro sports event today, there’s a good chance the stadium or arena will be powered at least in part by renewable energy. The team likely takes steps to reduce energy and waste. Some ...

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 ...

Hardly a day goes by without a massive tech company rolling out a new sustainability initiative—or whatever it is you’d like to call Microsoft restarting the Three Mile Island nuclear facility and ...

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 ...

You clicked a checkbox during checkout. " Your conscience felt lighter. The airline's website told you that you were helping save forests somewhere in Brazil or Cambodia. Flying didn't seem so bad ...

If you go to a pro sports event today, there’s a good chance the stadium or arena will be powered at least in part by renewable energy. The team likely takes steps to reduce energy and waste. Some ...