The world is slowly beginning to learn how to better calculate the full environmental impact of the millions of things that are produced every day. When it comes to cars, automakers are slowly ...

The Earth hit a worrying climate change milestone this month, and it appears to be permanent. The concentration of carbon dioxide in the planet’s atmosphere has surpassed 400 parts per million during ...

Our planet has experienced dramatic climate shifts throughout its history, oscillating between freezing "icehouse" periods ...

New research highlights the complex relationship between Earth's tectonic plate movements and climate shifts. Contrary to ...

PENNSYLVANIA, USA — Carbon: the backbone of all life on earth. Economies, homes, and transportation are powered by it. But humans are putting out more of it than ever before, and it’s resulting in one ...

Mars, the enigmatic Red Planet, has long captivated humanity with its stark, seemingly barren landscape. Today, it’s a cold, dry world – a shadow of its once-vibrant past. But what if this desolate ...

The global carbon cycle plays a vital role in climate change and is of intense importance to policy makers, but significant knowledge gaps remain in our understanding of it. Several scientists at the ...

A team in Taiwan has engineered a new way for plants to absorb and use carbon dioxide, potentially reshaping the fight against climate change. By inserting an extra biochemical cycle into a model ...

For decades, climate policy has leaned on a comforting assumption: that as humans emit more carbon dioxide, plants will respond by growing faster and locking away a large share of that pollution. A ...

Mars, one of our closest planetary neighbors, has fascinated people for hundreds of years, partly because it is so similar to Earth. It is about the same size, contains similar rocks and minerals, and ...