A camper van speeds through Death Valley National Park. While Furnace Creek Ranch in the park holds the record for the hottest recorded temperature in world history at 134.1 degrees, the thermostat ...

Peatlands are one of the world’s biggest carbon sinks. These naturally waterlogged boggy swamps can hold thousands of years’ worth of compressed, partially decomposed vegetation matter — despite ...

Forests cover about 40% of the EU's land area. Between 1990 and 2022, they absorbed around 10% of the continent's man-made carbon emissions. However, the carbon dioxide absorption capacity of forests, ...

In celebration of World Wetlands Day, WWF Central and Eastern Europe released new research revealing the critical role of floodplain restoration in combating climate change. The findings show that ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jamie Hailstone is a U.K-based reporter, who covers sustainability. Trees are seen at Laguna Grande in the protected Amazon ...

A major global study using teabags as a measuring device shows warming temperatures may reduce the amount of carbon stored in wetlands. The international team of scientists buried 19,000 bags of green ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. It begins each day at nightfall. As the light disappears, billions of zooplankton, ...

That stickiness matters. When bacteria clump together, they sink faster, carrying carbon away from the surface ocean and into ...

Global fossil fuel emissions are projected to rise in 2025 to a new all-time high, with all sources—coal, gas, and oil—contributing to the increase. At the same time, our new global snapshot of carbon ...