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Europe’s Trawlers Extract a Huge ‘Cost to Society’ in Bycatch and Carbon Dioxide

Bottom trawlers drag giant nets across the ocean floor, releasing stored CO2 and killing up to 75 percent of the marine life unintentionally caught up in the process.

By Johnny Sturgeon

A bottom trawling boat is seen at sea. Credit: Open Seas/National Geographic Pristine Seas
Professor Ralph Keeling, son of Charles David Keeling, demonstrates how a sample of air is collected to measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere on April 11 as part of the Keeling Curve monitoring study at the UC San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Credit: Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)

Global Scientists Anticipate Less Reliance on the US in Future Carbon Monitoring

By Marianne Lavelle

A view of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-3 (OCO-3) payload on its way to the International Space Station in 2019. Credit: Christina Koch/NASA

Will NASA Kill a Pair of Critical Climate Satellites?

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Patrick Hanks, chief technology officer of Graphitic Energy, talks about the carbon formation vessel on the company’s San Antonio pilot project, which pulls solid carbon graphite out of methane gas. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

Startups Make Products From the Carbon in Fossil Fuels

By Dylan Baddour

New data from NOAA shows that the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide increased at a record rate in 2024, partly as a result of continued burning of coal for energy like at the Jänschwalde lignite-fired power plant in Germany. Credit: Patrick Pleul/picture alliance via Getty Images

A Grim Signal: Atmospheric CO2 Soared in 2024

By Bob Berwyn

Bobby Jones stands in front of Duke Energy's STAR facility in Goldsboro, N.C. Jones co-founded the Down East Coal Ash Environmental and Social Justice Coalition, which advocates for people in eastern North Carolina burdened by pollution. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

As the Clock Ticks to Act on the Climate Crisis, N.C. Activists Target a ‘Carbon Plan’

By Lisa Sorg

Rob Jackson’s new book “Into the Clear Blue Sky” is set to be released on July 30. Credit: Courtesy of Rob Jackson

‘A Repair Manual for the Planet’: What Would It Take to Restore Our Atmosphere?

By Phil McKenna

Photo illustration by Derek Harrison. Photographs by Marli Miller/UCG/Universal Images Group; Giuseppe Cacace/AFP; Olivier Morin/AFP; Yuan Hongyan/VCG via Getty Images

2023 in Climate News: Did Renewable Energy’s Surge Keep Pace With a Radically Warming Climate?

By ICN Staff

Porsche plans to use CO2-reduced steel in its sports cars from 2026. Credit: Courtesy of Porsche AG

The Race Is On to Make Low-Emissions Steel. Meet One of the Companies Vying for the Lead.

By Dan Gearino

A nuclear plant in Germany

IEA Forecasts 30 Percent CO2 Growth from Nuclear Retreat

By Reuters

National Research Council Report Underscores the Urgency of CO2 Emmisions Reductions

By SolveClimate Staff

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