No matter how responsibly we try to live, it's impossible not to create pollution in some way. How we eat, how we power our homes, and how we get around create some amount of pollution. But just ...

On the island of Sherbro in Sierra Leone, as in much of the country, there’s limited access to vital services needed to make ...

When Bill Gates, a self-proclaimed environmentalist, was confronted over his private jet carbon emissions, he deflected the issue, arguing that he offsets his emissions. He is not alone. From other ...

The Bootleg Fire in southern Oregon in 2021 burned more than 435,000 acres, including a quarter of the Klamath East forest carbon project. (Photo by U.S. Forest Service/Flickr) A large Oregon forest ...

Carbon offsets have become big business as more companies make promises to protect the climate but can’t meet the goals on their own. When a company buys carbon offsets, it pays a project elsewhere to ...

Carbon offsets in sports are also in the news, with scandals erupting around them in connection with sports from FIFA’s 2022 World Cup to basketball’s LA Clippers.

The next time you buy a plane ticket or get a package delivered, you might see a pop-up on the website: the chance to buy a carbon offset with your purchase. That offset is basically a promise, says ...

You clicked a checkbox during checkout. " Your conscience felt lighter. The airline's website told you that you were helping ...

As the end of the year approaches, edie summarises 12 of the biggest stories of the year in the fields of environmental policy and corporate sustainability, including the COP30 climate summit in ...

Taylor Swift may not be the first person who comes to mind when you think about climate change. But more than once, the singer has found herself in the middle of a media storm over her carbon di­oxide ...

The registry used nearly one million bogus carbon credits to compensate for failed Shell-linked China rice offsets, raising concerns over its rules ...