2024 may have been Earth's hottest year in at least 125,000 years, according to a grim climate report published Wednesday (Oct. 29) that describes our world as "on the brink" and warns its "vital ...

The OCO-2 satellite analyses sunlight reflected from Earth. Carbon dioxide acts like a filter, absorbing specific wavelengths ...

Record-Breaking CO2 Rise Shows The Amazon Is Faltering - Yet The Satellite That Spotted This May Soon Be Shut Down.

Atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂) rose faster in 2024 than in any year since records began—far faster than scientists expected ...

Something else must be amplifying the effect. The most likely culprit is the extensive, record-breaking drought that has ...

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Key Laboratory of Industrial Ecology and Environmental Engineering (MOE), Dalian Key Laboratory on Chemicals Risk Control and Pollution Prevention Technology, School of Environmental Science and ...

For decades, forest, grasslands and other land ecosystems have collectively absorbed up to a third of the carbon dioxide we ...

More than 75% of the planet's health and life support systems are in danger. The climate crisis is not a distant threat; it's happening right now and affecting what matters most to us. Hurricanes ...

Earth's climate has fluctuated between cold and warm periods for millions of years. During the so-called "lukewarm interglacials"—warm phases between 800,000 and 430,000 years ago—atmospheric CO 2 ...