Burning fossil fuels creates carbon dioxide gas. This adds to climate change by making the Earth warmer than it should be. Once fossil fuels are gone, they cannot be replaced. Renewable ...

The burning of fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide, a major greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere. This contributes ...

Producing energy to power our societies and help them develop sustainably is essential, but it also has impacts on the natural world. Burning fossil fuels is irrevocably destabilising our climate, ...

In the place of those fires we keep lit day and night, it’s possible for us to rely on the fact that there is a fire in the sky—a great ball of burning ... of fossil fuels and renewables ...

Fossil fuels, when burned to produce energy, cause harmful greenhouse gas emissions, such as carbon dioxide. Generating renewable energy creates far lower emissions than burning fossil fuels.

This story appears in the July 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Thirty years ago, the potentially disruptive impact of heat-trapping emissions from burning fossil fuels and rain forests ...

Biomass energy is made by burning living things like trees, crop residues, and other “woody biomass” to produce electricity. Like fossil fuels, biomass energy releases loads of planet-heating carbon ...