‘Abdication’: Trump formally takes US out of Paris climate agreement for a second time

Experts are watching for how other countries will react as the 'real economy' shifts to cheaper, cleaner energy… 

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/27/trump-withdraws-paris-climate-agreement

 

This 3,775-year-old log may hold the secret to slowing climate change - The Washington Post

Under the right conditions, tons of wood could be buried underground in wood vaults, locking in a portion of human-generated CO2 for potentially thousands of years. While other carbon-capture technologies rely on expensive and energy-intensive machines to extract CO2, the tools for putting wood underground are simple: a tractor and a backhoe...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2024/09/26/carbon-atmosphere-burying-wood/

Court ruling on social cost of carbon upends Biden’s climate plans, administration warns - The Washington Post

…President Biden last year directed federal agencies to apply an interim social cost of carbon of $51 per ton — the figure used under Barack Obama — while his administration weighed whether to raise it to as high as $125 per ton. Under Donald Trump, that figure had fallen as low as $1 per ton, as his appointees recalculated the impacts of climate change on present and future generations.
 

But a coalition of 10 Republican attorneys general sued over the presidential directive, arguing that Biden lacked the authority to raise the climate metric under the Constitution, which gives that power solely to Congress. The Louisiana federal judge, a Trump appointee, agreed…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/02/21/social-cost-of-carbon-biden/

Climeworks is opening the world's biggest carbon removal machine — Quartz

… Operated by the Swiss engineering startup Climeworks, the plant, known as Orca, will annually draw down a volume of emissions equivalent to about 870 cars…

https://qz.com/2055951/climeworks-is-opening-the-worlds-biggest-carbon-removal-machine/

Sweden tells Texas how to keep turbines spinning in freezing weather | TheHill

... Researchers from Sweden power company Skellefteå Kraft use heating carbon fiber technology to prevent wind turbines from icing over...

https://thehill.com/changing-america/sustainability/energy/539460-sweden-tells-texas-how-to-keep-turbines-spinning-in

Tropical forests losing their ability to absorb carbon, study finds

Tropical forests are taking up less carbon dioxide from the air, reducing their ability to act as “carbon sinks” and bringing closer the prospect of accelerating climate breakdown. The Amazon could turn into a source of carbon in the atmosphere, instead of one of the biggest absorbers of the gas, as soon as the next decade, owing to the damage caused by loggers and farming interests and the impacts of the climate crisis, new research has found. ....
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/mar/04/tropical-forests-losing-their-ability-to-absorb-carbon-study-finds

The Arctic may have crossed key threshold, emitting billions of tons of carbon into the air, in a long-dreaded climate feedback - The Washington Post

A new federal report on the Arctic finds the region is in the midst of drastic and sudden changes as a result of human-caused warming.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/12/10/arctic-may-have-crossed-key-threshold-emitting-billions-tons-carbon-into-air-long-dreaded-climate-feedback/

Climate change is morally wrong. It is time for a carbon abolition movement | Eric Beinhocker - the guardian

Those who fought against slavery did not agonise over the costs and benefits. Their goal was clear: make it illegal ....
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/20/climate-change-morally-wrong-carbon-abolition-movement

Building Blocks of Life Found on Mars - National Geographic

Two landmark discoveries reveal organic carbon on the red planet, shaping the future hunt for life on Mars. ....
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/06/mars-organic-compounds-methane-curiosity-space-science/