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On carbon offsets, Wirecutter story doesn’t cut it
By Bruno Vander Velde
March 1, 2023
A recent article claims that buying carbon offsets for your flight doesn't help the climate crisis. This conclusion is bafflingly wrong: Paying to protect an area of forest to offset the climate footprint of your flight does in fact — demonstrably and verifiably — help.
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In race to reach net zero, businesses look to carbon credits, survey finds
By Mary Kate McCoy
January 12, 2023
Business leaders recognize the urgency of the climate crisis — and are taking action, according to a new report.
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Climate change is keeping people up at night — literally: 3 stories you may have missed
By Kiley Price
May 31, 2022
In case you missed it: Rising temperatures are disrupting peoples’ slumber, carbon offsets are helping the Indigenous Hadza people protect the forests they depend on and elephants are consuming massive amounts of plastic from dumpsters in India.
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That UN climate report wasn’t all bad news
By Bruno Vander Velde
April 7, 2022
The recent IPCC climate report was bleak, but there are silver linings. Our expert weighs in.
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Carbon markets can power climate action: 3 stories you may have missed
By Kiley Price
March 14, 2022
In case you missed it: Carbon markets could help countries meet their climate goals, tree experts are taking on timber trafficking and a rapidly spreading disease is jeopardizing eelgrass.
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