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Biochar Is ‘Low-Hanging Fruit’ for Sequestering Carbon and Combating Climate Change

Made from heating wood and other biomass at high temperatures with no oxygen, biochar mixed in soils dominated the carbon offset marketplace last year in tons of warming gases absorbed from the atmosphere.

By Lindsey Byman

A worker lays out biochar to dry in the sun before it is packed and distributed in Lugazi, Uganda. Credit: Michele Sibiloni/AFP via Getty Images

Can Carbon Offsets Save a Fragile Band of Belize’s Tropical Rainforest?

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Carbon Offsets to Reduce Deforestation Are Significantly Overestimating Their Impact, a New Study Finds

By Keerti Gopal

Carbon Removal Projects Leap Forward With New Offset Deal. Will They Actually Help the Climate?

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Countries Want to Plant Trees to Offset Their Carbon Emissions, but There Isn’t Enough Land on Earth to Grow Them

By Katie Surma

Fires smolder and burn in the mountains west of Paisley, Oregon. Credit: Maranie Staab/Bloomberg via Getty Images

US Forest Fires Threaten Carbon Offsets as Company-Linked Trees Burn

By Camilla Hodgson, Financial Times

The Trinity River in the southern Klamath Mountains in California. Credit: Carol M. Highsmith/Buyenlarge/Getty Images

The Climate Solution Actually Adding Millions of Tons of CO2 Into the Atmosphere

By Lisa Song, ProPublica, and James Temple, MIT Technology Review

Crushed by Covid-19, Airlines Lobby for a Break on Emissions Offsets

By Kristoffer Tigue

Could the Flight Shaming Movement Take Off in the U.S.? JetBlue Thinks So.

By Kristoffer Tigue

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