Atmospheric CO₂ concentrations are surging, even as emissions level out. Natural carbon sinks are showing signs of faltering ...

Ozone as a layer several kilometers up in the atmosphere protects living beings, including humans, from ultraviolet rays. But ...

The “wealthiest 10 per cent” of people on the planet are “responsible” for 65 per cent of the 0.61°C increase in global ...

a greenhouse gas that traps nearly 300 times as much heat in the atmosphere as carbon dioxide. About 70% of human-caused nitrous oxide comes from agricultural soils, so it's vital to find ways to ...

Scientists are worried because they can’t fully explain the big jump, but they think it might mean that carbon absorption by ...

Since its start, the program has reduced energy costs by more than $500 billion and prevented about 4 billion metric tons of planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions, according to ...

Today's children will endure more climate extremes then any previous generation - including heatwaves, floods, wildfires and ...

Scientists believe a controversial geoengineering technique called stratospheric aerosol injection could be used to cool the ...

While not final, the findings have sparked concern among scientists who have been tracking the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere for years. “What this is showing is that climate ...

Atmospheric and marine heatwaves in and around New Zealand have increased climate extremes, with melting glaciers in the South Island, writes Dr Kevin Trenberth ...

IOWA (Iowa Capital Dispatch) - When household waste decomposes at a landfill, it produces methane, a greenhouse gas that traps significantly more heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide.