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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

By John Cannon A new analysis suggests that the “prudent” storage available for carbon dioxide to head off further global ...

Pretending that unpleasant facts do not exist, or don’t matter, however, is not going to make the problem go away. Not measuring the concentration of CO2 will not make future generations wealthier, ...

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 ...

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 ...