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

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

[NAIROBI] Climate change, combined with rising carbon dioxide levels, may significantly impact arsenic ... Climate experts predict an increase in global temperatures of 2.7 degrees above ...

The excess heat that these gases trap near Earth’s surface has caused global temperatures to rise ... gases in the atmosphere, chiefly carbon dioxide, are now far higher than at any point ...

The world is facing a rise in extreme weather occurrences, ranging from destructive hurricanes to raging heatwaves and record ...

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

Over the last decade, humanity's emissions of carbon dioxide (CO₂) have stabilised after a period of huge growth. Average growth is now down to just ...

While CO₂ doesn’t transmit viruses itself, it acts as a proxy for indoor crowding and poor ventilation. The more people in a space, the more CO₂ builds up from exhaled breath. When there isn’t enough ...

Research from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, shows ocean phytoplankton pull as much carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere as four amazon rainforests — largely thanks to ...

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

Using boats, buoys and autonomous gliders, the scientists will track changes in water chemistry that should allow this tiny patch of the Atlantic Ocean to absorb more carbon dioxide from the sky ...