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.

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

With the world set to blow past its temperature targets, efforts are growing to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.

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

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 ...

NOAA research shows it would take the average tree more than 1500 years to sequester the amount of carbon dioxide a whale can ...

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 ...

Climate scientists have long recognized that increasing levels of carbon dioxide ... directly to global warming. There is a strong and well-established link between rising global temperatures ...