The transportation sector accounts for a third of all greenhouse gas emissions. One port is trying to eliminate emissions entirely within the coming decade.

The building materials are a major source of greenhouse gases.

The Carbon Removal Standards Initiative just launched in the U.S. this week.

The funding aims to cut the cost of cleaner manufacturing in industries like food, paper and chemicals.

Emissions from transportation, on the other hand, were up.

Another example of how hard it can be to recycle polymers.

Microsoft is paying $200 million to a company using crushed rock to absorb carbon, and the Frontier consortium is backing emerging technology.

A growing number of scientists and economists see a novel kind of credit as an important tool to help reverse global declines in biodiversity.

The EU already imposes an environmental charge on EU-made goods. Its new plan would assess the same charge on imports.

“I find myself looking at the other bikers going slowly and going ‘just get out of my way,’” says Ian Bogost, contributing writer at The Atlantic.