It is called a greenhouse gas because —like the glass structure of a greenhouse — carbon dioxide molecules trap heat in the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide accounts for two-thirds of the global warming ...

Credit: NASA Carbon dioxide is necessary for plants to grow, perform photosynthesis, and produce the oxygen we breathe. During periods in the past when atmospheric carbon levels were high ...

Alexandros Maragos via Getty Images Earth has broken another greenhouse gas emissions record: The levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere above Hawaii made an unprecedent jump in 2024 ...

U.S. efforts to put carbon dioxide from power plants and industrial facilities underground where they won't contribute to global warming could see less federal support under President Donald Trump ...

Land areas colored purple were a source of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. The darkest purple ... than-average temperatures are blue. The graph shows how yearly Arctic (red line) and global ...

A research team has made significant discoveries regarding the complex reaction mechanisms of carbon dioxide (CO₂) in supercritical water. These findings are crucial for understanding the ...

By Liz Kimbrough The Arctic region has shifted from storing carbon dioxide to releasing it into the atmosphere, according to the 2024 Arctic Report Card released by the U.S. National Oceanic and ...

State Key Laboratory of Integrated Optoelectronics, College of Electronic Science and Engineering, Jilin University, 2699 Qianjin Street, Changchun 130012, China ...

But too much of a good thing can have negative impacts. Using ice cores, which contain trapped air bubbles from hundreds of thousands of years ago, scientists have recreated the history of carbon ...