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 World Meteorological Organization says CO2 growth rates have tripled since the 1960s, reaching levels not seen in 800,000 ...

Surging emissions from wildfires may have been behind the increase, which was the largest since modern measurements began ...

After withdrawing its initial application in January, Navigator CO2 Ventures has filed a new route for its Heartland Greenway carbon dioxide pipeline with the Illinois Commerce Commission. The new ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...