New study notes that warming boosts and weakens the molecule that removes 90% of atmospheric methane simultaneously.

The increase in the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere last year was the biggest ever recorded, the United Nations said Wednesday, calling for urgent action to slash emissions. Levels of the ...

Methane in the atmosphere had its fourth-highest annual increase in 2022, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported, part of an overall rise in planet-warming greenhouse gases that ...

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 ...

Chemically, carbon dioxide is incredibly simple—it is just one carbon atom linked with two oxygen atoms. Together they create a colorless gas that makes up just a tiny fraction of the Earth's ...

The answer has to do with the air we breathe and that bright white snowpack, as an atmospheric scientist in Colorado explains ...

Ed Hawkins receives funding from UKRI NERC grants and is supported by the National Centre for Atmospheric Science. Ric Williams receives funding from UKRI NERC grants and works at University of ...