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

A new analysis finds tropical forests in Australia are not taking in enough carbon dioxide to keep up with the emissions from ...

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 ...

Researchers quantified and mapped the greenhouse gas emissions of beef, chicken and pork consumption to calculate the "carbon ...

It's short-lived but its planet-heating effects are much stronger than CO2. Where does methane come from, and what can we do ...

Tiny poops are supposed to sink to the seafloor, locking away carbon. But scientists have found that warm spells are disrupting that flushing.

Policy upheavals have cast uncertainty over the future of carbon capture and storage in the power sector, though its momentum is widely expected to continue. In November 2024, the Global CCS Institute ...

The Kern County carbon capture project marks California’s first commercial CO2 storage site as legal challenges test its future.

Moreover, a weird thing happens when you start making waste valuable: There’s an incentive to produce more of it. Some ...

Carbon monoxide (CO) is an odorless, colorless and toxic gas that causes hundreds of unintentional deaths a year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The gas is ...

Carbon monoxide is often called the “silent killer,” because the invisible and odorless gas can be deadly. Even just a few minutes of breathing in fumes that contain carbon monoxide (CO) can cause ...

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