The pop star’s use of hazily defined offsets to deflect criticism perfectly illustrates how the offsets market works in practice.

Over the last few years, a drumbeat of academic research and investigative reporting has painted a bleak picture of carbon offsets.

Why is the airline industry so hard to decarbonize—and can we ever expect to fly guilt-free?

The Alaskan government’s new plan is supposed to protect forests and help fix climate change. It does neither.

An awkward week at the World Economic Forum!

Current models show that we need to pull huge quantities of carbon out of the air. Right now, though, the tools for doing that are mostly being used for corporate greenwashing.

The oil giant owns a carbon sequestration company that could benefit from the law, allowing BP to play both sides of the emissions ledger.