The Latest Breaking News from Greenhouse Gases

In 2021, 7,660 individual facilities were responsible for over 40% of total US emissions.

Diesel buses that were recently purchased by the CTA will continue to emit dangerous greenhouse gases for almost the entire decade of the 2030s, a former transit executive and member of the Climate Reality Project writes.

New research on garbage dumps in 44 sub-Saharan African countries shows that 95% are unregulated. The landfill sites still take in new garbage even when they are filled to capacity. As the waste decomposes, these sites release harmful greenhouse gases. However, using the methane gas to generate energy instead could…

Humanity’s emissions of greenhouse gases have caused rapid global warming at a rate unprecedented in at least the past 2,000 years. Rapid global warming has been accompanied by increases in the frequency and intensity of heat extremes over most land regions in the past 70 years.

A Guardian analysis reveals that a dozen billionaires produce as much greenhouse gases as more than 2 million homes

Leader of UN’s meteorological agency says the world is still ‘heading in the wrong direction’ and must cut fossil fuels.

The nations promised to accelerate efforts to address climate change ahead of a major U.N. meeting on the issue, making plans to cut emissions of methane and other greenhouse gases besides CO2.

Climate scientists have detected a striking jump in global temperatures during 2023. September was 1.75°C above Earth’s pre-industrial average temperature and a whole half-degree celsius warmer than the previous hottest September.

Each year, the federal government purchases about 50,000 new vehicles. Until recently, almost all of them ran on diesel or gasoline, contributing to U.S. demand for fossil fuels and encouraging automakers to continue focusing on fossil-fueled vehicles.