Scientists are worried because they can’t fully explain the big jump, but they think it might mean that carbon absorption by forests, fields and wetlands is slowing down—a major problem for the world.

Earth Day began 55 years ago on this date, April 22, 1970, in the United States. The movement was spearheaded by Wisconsin ...

Created by combining more than 150,000 pieces of fossil evidence with state-of-the-art climate models, it shows the intimate ...

The trapped heat energy leads to increased average global surface air temperatures. One reason carbon dioxide has such a big impact on global temperatures is that hotter air can hold more water vapour ...

Scientists have many ways to track the climate over time. These methods have made it clear that today's climate change is ...

But in the multi-faceted fight to combat climate change, scientists are finding that crushed rocks judiciously applied to farmers’ fields may be a powerful force in removing heat-trapping carbon ...

The lack of context minimized the government’s own findings that atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide — the most ... which scientists would discuss global temperatures and the reasons for ...