Combating climate change is so often synonymous with reducing carbon dioxide emissions that you might forget all about the other gas that’s baking the planet: methane, a short-lived but extremely ...

Literally and figuratively, cement is the glue that holds our cities together. Each year, humans use more than four billion tons of this material — the key ingredient in concrete — to build homes and ...

The CHS oil refinery is silhouetted against the setting sun Sept. 28 in McPherson, Kan. (Charlie Riedel/Associated Press files) The amount of the powerful climate-changing gas methane spilling out of ...

Construction has historically been viewed as an unavoidably high emissions industry, with cement production contributing about 8% of global emissions. This problem is challenging to solve because you ...

July 2023 was the hottest month ever recorded. Scorching heat, droughts, a disruption of the polar jet stream, and record-high ocean surface temperatures offer just a taste of how climate change is ...

Semiconductors’ extremely energy- and resource-intensive manufacturing process makes them a prime target for climate-conscious finger wagging. Carbon emissions from electronic waste are massive and ...

The construction and built world industry contributes to 40% of global energy-related carbon emissions, with emissions predicted to double by 2050. Europe leads in green construction technology ...

Some neighborhoods in Beaumont sit next to massive refineries. An investigation by Grist found that Texas companies have released more than 1 billion pounds of pollution in excess of what their ...

Food's role in climate change has emerged as one of the defining challenges of our time. The journey of a steak, fruit or salad from the vast expanses of agricultural lands to the plates on our tables ...

In March 2022, within a broader-treatment post on automobile owners’ rights to repair their own vehicles, I briefly introduced the topic of the on-board diagnostics (OBD) port, used to monitor (and in ...