CO2 emissions

This is the first segment of a three part interview with Scot Horst, senior vice-president, LEED, United States Green Building Council (USGBC). In this part, Horst talks about the mission of the USGBC, why green buildings are so important, and LEED.

Brooklyn’s Coney Island is putting its abundant sun power to good use.

Chemists at UCLA have developed a synthetic gene that captures carbon emissions up to 400% more effectively.

The discovery could lead to cleaner energy, including technology that factories and cars can use to capture carbon dioxide before it reaches the atmosphere.

The Algal Biomass Organization (ABO) recently praised President Barack Obama for his strong support of the U.S. biofuels industry as outlined in his biofuels strategy released earlier this month.

China’s voracious appetite for energy to fuel its frenetic economic growth is well documented. How China is going to generate that power is less well known – and a source of intense domestic and global debate.

The Export-Import Bank of the United States became the first Export Credit Agency (ECA) to adopt a comprehensive Carbon Policy to guide its support of United States exports in light of climate change concerns.

Sealing up homes and offices saves energy and is mostly a good thing, except when the air inside is full of CO2 with no good place to go, which is where the eSense Fresh Air Indicator from CO2Meter.com enters the picture. 

The two largest economies in the world need to work together to scale up the global clean tech sector according to a new interactive report in the

Algeria spent most of the 19th-century and much of the 20th-century under French colonial rule. Since escaping from under France's thumb in 1962, it has struggled with instability: a coup, rebellion, civil war and Islamic militant violence.

Research from the University of California, Berkeley shows that diesel bus services running during off-peak hours have higher emission rates than commercial airline flights.