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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
An ethanol plant is seen in Casselton, N.D. Credit: Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Summit Sold Its Midwest Pipeline as a Carbon Solution. Now, It’ll Be Used for Fossil Fuels.

By Anika Jane Beamer

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

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

A woman drops off food scraps at a city compost collection site in Queens, New York. Credit: Lindsey Nicholson/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Curbside ‘Composting’ Is Finally Citywide in New York. Or Is It?

By Jake Bolster

A view of Archer-Daniels-Midland's processing complex in Decatur, Illinois. Credit: PR Newswire

A Carbon Capture Monitoring Well Leaked in Illinois. Most Residents Found Out When the World Did

By Nina B. Elkadi

Biologist Sandra Steingraber, an anti-fracking activist with Concerned Health Professionals of New York, speaks during a March 5 rally at the New York State Capitol in Albany. Credit: Food & Water Watch

New York State Legislature Votes to Ban CO2 Fracking, Closing a Decade-Old Loophole in State Law

By Keerti Gopal

A mixture of steam and pollutants are emitted from the Naughton coal-fired power plant on Nov. 22, 2022 in Kemmerer, Wyo. Credit: Natalie Behring/Getty Images

Wyoming Considers Relaxing Its Carbon Capture Standards for Electric Utilities, Scrambling Political Alliances on Climate Change and Energy

By Jake Bolster

Carbon dioxide pipelines transport CO2 captured from ethanol processing plants like this one in Menlo, Iowa. Credit: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

Just How Much Money Do CO2 Pipeline Companies Stand to Make From the Inflation Reduction Act?

By Nicholas Kusnetz, Kristoffer Tigue

A fracked-methane gas pipeline under construction in Peekskill, N.Y. Credit: Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images

A Firm Planning a Drilling Spree in New York’s Southern Tier Goes Silent as Lawmakers Seek to Ban Use of CO2 in Quest for Gas

By Peter Mantius

Fishermen sort their catch from a trawl fishery on a fishing boat in the Port of Molfetta on Dec. 1, 2023. Credit: Davide Pischettola/NurPhoto via Getty Images

A Common Fishing Practice Called Bottom Trawling Releases Significant Amounts of CO2 Into Earth’s Atmosphere

By Georgina Gustin

Tree trunks in Bavaria stored for further processing in a sawmill, taken during an excursion along the value chain of a wood pellet.

Alabama Wood Pellet Mill Seeks Millions in Climate Funds, but Critics Say It Won’t Cut CO2

By Dennis Pillion, AL.com

Increasing CO2 Means More and Longer Allergy Misery

By Joan Oleck

Concern Over Ocean Acidification Ramps Up Research Dollars

By Lisa Song

Clean Air Act a "Very Good Investment"

By Stacy Feldman

Tech Experts Taming the Wild West of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

By Leslie Berliant

Rep. Markey Hints at CO2 Auction Plans

By Stacy Morford

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