Carbon Dioxide Emissions

Sea levels have risen by about 4 inches since 1993 and are expected to increase further at an accelerated rate in the years to come.

Environmental activists tend to dream up what they consider a perfect, utopian society, where human greed has disappeared, and Mother Nature is restored to her former glory.

Forty percent of Americans don't believe that eating less red meat would lower carbon emissions, according to a poll for Newsweek.

Wind and solar power have benefits, but also come with adverse impacts. The same is true of electric vehicles.

New research has found 38 percent of the remaining Amazon has been degraded by human actions, including forest fires, logging, and extreme drought.

"Everything about billionaires is damaging to the environment," Beatriz Barros, an environmental justice researcher at Indiana University, told Newsweek.

"It was just the ground itself that was smoking, there was no fire," Reddit user u/TomakaTom told Newsweek.

Electric vehicles will only take over when innovation has made them better and cheaper than gas-powered cars.

To mine new bitcoin, a computer has to solve a cryptographic puzzle, which uses up a large amount of electricity.

While the distance of flights would vary, with an average flight length of three hours, Davos would see almost 34.6 million pounds burned during the event.

Coal is the single largest source of man-made greenhouse gas emissions, making it a key target in emissions reduction plans.

"We have already failed on climate to the extent to which direct air capture is one of the many things we must do," said a senior researcher.

The EU seems to have ignored how its policies would impact the developing world, which relies on trade to keep economies, industries and livelihoods afloat.

"The environment concerns the well-being of people in all countries. We need to take into full account people's longing for a better life and good environment, as well as our responsibility for future generations," Xi said.

Gates told Fox: "If we have this idealistic generation and this wonderful goal, we need a plan, and my experience could help contribute to that plan."

The technologies and financing needed are either already in place or within reach. The main missing ingredient needed now is evolution in our thinking and policy discourse.

The new method offers a way to recycle one of the leading greenhouse gases responsible for climate change.

Twenty-two countries managed to decrease their carbon dioxide emissions while improving their economies.

It is one of the few things that can drastically reshape our world, altering it forever

The impact that animal agriculture has on our planet cannot be underestimated.

Thanks to a host of ingenious tech tweaks, air travel is light-years better for the planet than it used to be.

The country also now emits more carbon than the United States and European Union combined.

While we focus on annual carbon dioxide emissions, we ignore the long-term pollution newly built power plants will cause in the next 40 years.