Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. It was perhaps the most spectacular failed tree planting project ever. Certainly the ...

Planting trees has plenty of benefits, but this popular carbon-removal method alone can't possibly counteract the planet-warming emissions caused by the world's largest fossil-fuel companies. To do ...

That's a billion-dollar idea that birthed the carbon trading system in which companies or individuals can purchase carbon "offsets" like planting trees to balance out carbon emissions. It's ballooned ...

A carbon offset company that was planting trees in Spain accidentally started a massive wildfire that has consumed about 35,000 acres — and it wasn’t even the first forest fire they caused this summer ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) – If you plant some trees, is it OK to drive an Escalade? The question isn’t as silly as it sounds. People worried about global warming increasingly are trying to “offset” the carbon ...

HARRISVILLE — Students from a local charter school have partnered with a nonprofit to plant tree saplings in an effort to offset the institution’s energy consumption from the past academic year.

Shawnee High School students will help offset their school’s energy consumption by planning to plant saplings in the yards of local residents. In partnership with the non-profit Tree-Plenish, the ...

Planting trees has plenty of benefits, but this popular carbon-removal method alone can’t possibly counteract the planet-warming emissions caused by the world’s largest fossil-fuel companies. To do ...