Particles in the atmosphere, known as aerosols, cool the climate by acting as cloud condensation nuclei. The more cloud ...

Northern wildfires may be unleashing hidden reservoirs of ancient carbon — and climate models are missing much of it.

New 3D scans of tropical rainforests give scientists better data on forest biomass, boosting carbon tracking and satellite ...

It’s not easy to find silver linings amid the rapid, human-driven destabilization of Earth’s climate—though that hasn’t ...

For scientists who study the Southern Ocean, a long-standing silver lining in the gloomy forecast of climate change has been ...

Elon Musk wants to launch a million satellites, but researchers say global warming is changing the upper atmosphere in ways that makes space junk linger.

F or the first time, chitin has been identified in a Cambrian Period trilobite. The unexpected discovery could be useful for ...

The scientists behind the first-of-its-kind experiment in the Gulf of Maine said they had sequestered carbon without harming marine life.

The idea that extreme climate change could one day cause a mass extinction and end the human dominance is not as farfetched ...

From rising sea levels to heightened risk of floods and wildfires, Pitt researchers claim the revocation of the EPA’s Endangerment Finding has consequences for global climate change.

In among all that life, the swamplands can cut a striking image. Lake Mai Ndombe, and its neighbor Lake Tumba, are both what’s known as “blackwater” lakes – the water, darkened by millennia of dead ...

The Congo Basin’s peatlands have stored carbon for millennia, but new research suggests much of it is now escaping.