Over the last decade, humanity's emissions of carbon dioxide (CO₂) have stabilized after a period of huge growth. Average growth is now down to just 0.6% per year, compared to 2% per year in the ...

Venus crushes, roasts, and corrodes anything that touches it, and it has almost no water. But fifty kilometers up, the ...

John Locher/AP / AP The amount of planet-warming carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere has hit a new record, as humanity struggles to rein in emissions of greenhouse gasses from burning fossil ...

The researchers propose that if a terrestrial planet has substantially less carbon dioxide in its atmosphere compared to other planets in the same system, it could be a sign of liquid water —and ...

An airborne study found tropical forests remove less carbon dioxide than expected, helping scientists build more accurate ...

Mark Herz: This is GBH’s Morning Edition. The amount of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere is increasing faster than ever. One global monitor showed that peak to peak from 2022 to 2024, we saw the ...

The levels of the crucial heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere reached historic highs last year, growing at near-record fast paces, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

Keith Bein is a professional researcher at the UC Davis Air Quality Research Center and a research professor at the Center for Health and the Environment. (Karin Higgins, UC Davis) The realities of ...

Best chance of finding liquid water, and even life on other planets, is to look for the absence of carbon dioxide in their atmospheres. Scientists at MIT, the University of Birmingham, and elsewhere ...