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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

With its eyes set on a 2035 net-zero emissions target, Yale University has turned toward carbon offsets for answers. According to Amber Garrard, director of the Office of Sustainability, the ...

The aviation industry is facing a critical challenge: a shortage of airline carbon credits and there’s a very high probability that it’ll result in more expensive airfares. But what is a carbon offset ...

Penn researchers jointly published a paper with academics at the University of Oxford that found the practice of carbon offsets inefficient. The paper — put out in the Annual Review of Environment and ...

A solar farm along the Pastaza River in Ecuador’s rainforest on April 14, 2023. (Misha Vallejo Prut for The Washington Post) Most major airlines now offer customers an add-on to their ticket purchase: ...

Duke recently achieved carbon neutrality — but this doesn’t mean the University’s emissions equal zero. In reality, this historic achievement was made possible by both emissions reductions and the ...

As the impacts of climate change grow increasingly severe, more and more products and services are being marketed to travelers to help offset one’s carbon footprint. Among the most common is carbon ...