The cause of global warming is showing no signs of slowing as heat-trapping carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere increased to record highs in its annual Spring peak, jumping at one of the fastest ...

Microplastics could be disrupting how oceans absorb and store carbon, potentially undermining a natural buffer that helps ...

Our planet has a memory. Deep within ice cores and ocean sediments lies evidence of a time when Earth looked fundamentally ...

Levels of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere reached another record high last month, scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography ...

A new study reveals that microplastics are impairing the oceans' ability to absorb carbon dioxide, a process scientists find ...

Earth inhales and exhales carbon, indicating where and when vegetation is growing (sucking up carbon dioxide) or dying off ...

The claim: The 'six great ice ages' began when CO2 was higher than now; all plants and animals die when CO2 levels are cut in half A July 4 post (direct link, archive link) on X, formerly Twitter, ...

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 ...

Scientists examine a large dike, formed from a sheet of magma that came to Earth’s surface millions of years ago during the Columbia River Basalt eruptions. These dikes fed magma to massive eruptions.