Earth’s atmosphere contains carbon dioxide, which is good for life on Earth – in moderation. Plants use CO2 as the source of the carbon they build into leaves and wood via photosynthesis. In ...

Scientists have created a device that captures carbon dioxide and transforms it into a useful chemical in a single step. The ...

Fast-acting antacids can be measured not just over millennia, but on annual and decadal timescales, too.

Carbon dioxide levels keep climbing, even after years of promises to cut emissions. At the same time, plastic waste pours ...

There’s no shortage of worldwide efforts aimed at planting millions of more trees to help offset our planet’s CO2-poisoned atmosphere. But entrepreneurial scientists at a biotech firm called Living ...

Researchers have found that manganese, an abundant and inexpensive metal, can be used to efficiently convert carbon dioxide ...

A solar-powered process that mimics photosynthesis in plants could be used to produce valuable resources such as fuel, researchers say.

A study recently published in the journal Nature finds plants have been absorbing 31 percent more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than previously assumed and modeled. The international team of ...

An Oct. 3 Facebook video (direct link, archive link) shows Ian Plimer, a skeptic of human-driven climate change, speaking at the Australian Conservative Political Action Conference in 2022. "Game over ...

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 ...

In 1971, President Richard Nixon’s science advisers proposed a multimillion dollar climate change research project with benefits they said were too “immense” to be quantified, since they involved ...