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

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 ...

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.

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

Deep in the Congo Basin, vast peatlands quietly store enormous amounts of Earth’s carbon — but new research suggests this ancient vault may be leaking. Scientists studying Africa’s largest blackwater ...

A closer look at Earth’s history shows that melting ice sheets temporarily increased stratification in the Southern Ocean.

Two large lakes in the Democratic Republic of Congo are releasing carbon that has been locked away for thousands of years in surrounding peatlands, scientists said, in what could pose a threat to ...