Scientific American spoke with Brannen about what’s in his new book, how he came to see a simple gas as a character in a planetary epic and what the long history of CO 2 can tell us about our ...

Emissions of carbon dioxide – the gas most responsible for global warming – continued to rise in Earth's atmosphere in 2022, federal scientists announced recently. Carbon dioxide (CO2) in the ...

Scores of instruments are peering down through Earth’s atmosphere, finding pollution all across the globe every day.

On Feb. 22, 2020, a clear Saturday after weeks of rain, Deemmeris Debra’e Burns, his brother and cousin decided to go fishing. They were headed home in a red Cadillac when they heard a boom and saw a ...

The greenhouse gas carbon dioxide can be converted into useful hydrocarbons by electrolysis. The design of the electrolysis cell is crucial in this process. The so-called zero-gap cell is particularly ...

The window to prevent catastrophic climate change is closing. Concentrations of planet-warming carbon pollution in the air are at their highest level in more than 2 million years – and the world has ...

Tree trunks in the Amazon are getting 3.3% thicker every decade as the plants absorb extra carbon dioxide, suggesting they ...

Even though carbon storage facilities are ready to go, experts claim that ability to capture enough CO2 is still far behind.

President Xi Jinping has pledged to cut China’s greenhouse gas emissions to 7-10% below peak levels by 2035, while “striving to do better”.

Aviation is a significant contributor to air pollution, with close to 2.5% of all carbon dioxide emissions resulting from aircraft. While historically there was little you could do about aviation-led ...

That extra 40 cents at the gas tank for the CO2 tax feeds into the Climate Commitment Act—but where does it really go? Washington Policy Center’s Todd Myers has been combing through the newly adopted ...

Deemmeris Debra'e Burns shows the spot on a rural road in Satartia, Miss., where he lost consciousness when a carbon dioxide pipeline ruptured, an experience he thinks is a warning for America. (Julia ...