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Space Tourism Poses a Significant ‘Risk to the Climate’

Rockets launched by billionaires Elon Musk and Richard Branson emit black carbon in the stratosphere, where it is 500 times worse for the climate than it is on Earth. Billionaire Jeff Bezos’ rockets burn liquid hydrogen and oxygen and pose a lesser climate threat.

By Phil McKenna

People watch as the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifts off from launch pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on April 11, 2019 in Titusville, Florida. The rocket is carrying a communications satellite built by Lockheed Martin into orbit. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images
Smoke billows from smokestacks and a coal fired generator at a steel factory on Nov. 19, 2015 in the industrial province of Hebei, China. Credit: Kevin Frayer/Getty Images

New Study Says World Must Cut Short-Lived Climate Pollutants as Well as Carbon Dioxide to Meet Paris Agreement Goals

By Phil McKenna

The Climate Sentinels team of female scientists ski Kfjellströmdalen, a 25-kilometer-long valley in Nordenskiöldland, Svalbard. The team traversed Svalbard's Spitsbergen Island to sample the snow and study the effects of black carbon on the Arctic island. Credit: Heïdi Sevestre

New Arctic Council Reports Underline the Growing Concerns About the Health and Climate Impacts of Polar Air Pollution

By Bob Berwyn

A truck carries ore excavated from the Mary River iron mine across the frozen landscape of Canada's Baffin Island. Baffinland Iron Mines Corporation wants to more than quadruple the mine's production, starting in 2025. Credit: Baffinland Media Centre

On Baffin Island in the Fragile Canadian Arctic, an Iron Ore Mine Spews Black Carbon

By Kristoffer Tigue

Truck with smoke coming out of tailpipe

'Black Carbon' Program on Obama's Chopping Block

By Elizabeth McGowan

New Shipping Lanes in Melting Arctic Will Speed Warming

By Lisa Song

Space Tourism May Spike Black Carbon Emissions

By Joan Oleck

Research Questions Value of Cutting Black Carbon as a Global Warming Solution

By Dave Levitan

'Black Carbon' Crackdown Offers Fast-Action Solution to Slow Warming

By Stacy Feldman

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