The world's largest wood pellet maker, Enviva, says it sees a bright future for its industry as it expands sales beyond the energy sector to industrial customers who need help meeting their climate ...

The world’s largest wood pellet producer has applied for a major clean energy tax credit for building a new plant in Epes, Ala., but critics say burning wood pellets for energy won’t reduce the ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Startups like Climeworks have proven that it’s possible to suck excess CO2 from the air and store it underground to fight climate change. But the technology is still too expensive to be viable on a ...

I tend to go through a lot of cans of air duster when cleaning computers, optical media, etc. The cheapest I can find are the Fellowes 'Air Duster' (1,1,1,2-Tetraflouroethane) for about $5 at Wal-Mart ...

Measuring air quality, as anyone who has tried to tackle this problem can attest, is not as straightforward as it might seem. Even once the nebulous term “quality” is defined, most sensors use ...

An ambitious startup looking to eat into the world's carbon emissions has just taken its biggest bite yet, flicking the switch on the largest direct air capture and CO2 storage plant on the planet.

At a major climate meeting in Poland, nearly 200 countries are trying to reach a deal on dramatically reducing carbon emissions. But a recent U.N. report found that may not be enough to avoid ...

NOAA’s Mauna Loa Atmospheric Baseline Observatory is perched high atop Hawaii’s largest mountain to sample well-mixed background air free of local pollution. Susan Cobb, NOAA Global Monitoring ...

Tree trunks in Bavaria stored for further processing in a sawmill, taken during an excursion along the value chain of a wood pellet. (Photo by Angelika Warmuth/picture alliance via Getty Images) ...