The average level of carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere had its largest one-year increase on record between 2023 and 2024. In 2024, the level reached 423.9 parts per million, an increase of 3.5 ...

Lava rubble at the bottom of the sea is acting like a giant "sponge" for carbon dioxide, ancient cores reveal. Ancient lava ...

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 ...

Israeli scientists are studying a natural process that has balanced Earth’s climate for millions of years by removing carbon dioxide from the air through interactions between rain, rocks, and water.

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Soil microbes remove carbon from the atmosphere and store it underground, revealing an overlooked pathway for storage in ...

An observatory high on Hawaii's Mauna Loa volcano that measures carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has reported its highest ever seasonal peak concentration of the greenhouse gas. For the first time, ...

What can carbon dioxide in an exoplanet’s atmosphere teach us about its formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal hopes to address as an international ...

Climate change deniers love to point out that plants flourish when carbon dioxide levels rise. As we burn fossil fuels, their thinking goes, the Earth will become greener and even more supportive of ...

A video has resurfaced online in December 2025 of a former physics professor in Canada asserting that doubling the amount of ...