The global average concentration of CO2 surged by 3.5 parts per million to reach 423.9 ppm last year, fuelling worries that ...

Your every breath serves as a reminder that the atmosphere of Earth is silently carrying out its function. Since air is ...

Carbon dioxide levels in the Earth's atmosphere reached a new record high in 2024, the World Meteorological Organization said ...

Greenhouse gas concentrations increased by a record amount in 2024 as more carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide became ...

Earth’s atmosphere now has more carbon dioxide in it than it has in millions — and possibly tens of millions — of years, according to data released Thursday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

Human activities, mainly the burning of coal, oil and gas for energy, have been driving carbon dioxide concentrations higher ...

Overall, we’re basically running out of planetary health measures to break at this point. And yet, news from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) this week shows that we’ve done it again, with ...

Researchers at Kyushu University have found that rising CO2 levels in our atmosphere could lead to future disruptions in ...

Researchers investigated the Mesozoic Era's atmosphere and vegetation by studying oxygen isotopes in dinosaur tooth enamel. This is a replica of a Stan™ T. rex tooth. Photograph: Thomas Tütken.

For decades, forest, grasslands and other land ecosystems have collectively absorbed up to a third of the carbon dioxide we ...

As spaceflight becomes increasingly routine, the environmental cost of reaching orbit is coming under scrutiny. A recent ...

A research team from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS), along ...