Cement manufacturing (such as that at this plant in Russia) accounts for 8% of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions. Credit: Getty Wet concrete has been poured into buildings, roads, bridges and ...

Innovation in cement and concrete technologies plays a key role in minimizing resource consumption, lowering carbon emissions, and enhancing long-term resilience.

If the cement industry were a country, it would be the third-largest emitter of carbon dioxide in the world, after the U.S. and China. One startup seeks to change that.

Cement production is responsible for around 8% of global carbon emissions. Using microalgae, rather than CO2-releasing limestone, could drastically cut that carbon footprint.

The cement industry is one of the world's largest greenhouse gas polluters, responsible for 7%-8% of global emissions, around 2.6 gigatonnes a year. That makes cutting emissions imperative ...

T he world gets a little greyer every year. According to a paper published in 2014 concrete—an aggregate material made by mixing cement, sand and gravel—is the second-most consumed substance ...

A cement works has plans to pipe 800,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide a year out to sea to fight climate change. Cement giant Hanson claims capturing carbon could play a vital role in the UK reaching ...