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 ...

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 ...

The steady drumbeat of emissions fueling global warming continued unabated in 2022, federal scientists announced this week. Levels of carbon dioxide and methane, the two greenhouse gases emitted by ...

The Earth’s atmosphere has hit a record-high level of heat-trapping carbon dioxide as our modern society burns fossil fuels like coal and oil, with 90% of the increase coming since the 1970s. That ...

Carbon dioxide makes up only about 0.04% of the Earth’s atmosphere, but that seemingly small figure ignores threat CO2 poses to the climate. Carbon dioxide accounts for 79% of U.S. greenhouse gas ...

You can't see it, smell it, taste it or touch it, but you darn sure can hear about it. Carbon dioxide - the gas that makes your pop fizzy and keeps the office ficus alive - has been collecting in ...

LONDON, April 18 (Reuters) - As the need for climate action intensifies, governments and industries are exploring how to remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere. The U.S. government has ...

Every day, more carbon removal is required. This is needed to counterbalance ongoing emissions that are difficult to eliminate and emissions we were too slow to eliminate historically. Neustark, one ...

Nov 9 (Reuters) - California climate technology company Heirloom on Thursday unveiled what it says is the first U.S. commercial direct air capture (DAC) plant to suck planet-warming carbon dioxide ...