The greenhouse effect is the process by which certain gases trap heat in Earth’s atmosphere, similar to how a car heats up in the sun. This keeps the planet warm enough for life.

An illustration shows how the runaway greenhouse gas effect could change an Earth-like planet into a boiling hellscape. Image source: Thibaut Roger / UNIGE.

Chinese researchers have developed an innovative electrified catalysis strategy that removes more greenhouse gases than it generates, achieving net-negative emissions.

Satellite data suggests cloud darkening is responsible for much of the warming since 2001, and the good news is that it is a ...

Our climate seems to be more sensitive to greenhouse gas emissions than some researchers had hoped, meaning the world will ...

GREENHOUSE GAS WARMING - HOW IT WORKS. Our atmosphere is made up of a mix of gases that sustain life by absorbing some solar radiation to heat the planet, allow livings things to breathe, and by ...

If food waste was a country, it would be the third-largest contributor to greenhouse gases. That’s what Moody Soliman told ...

In 1956, the physicist Gilbert N. Plass published a paper in American Scientist looking at increases in global temperatures and greenhouse gases since 1900. He found that the world seemed to be ...

Global greenhouse gas levels set a record in 2022, keeping the planet’s temperatures on a rising path set to blow past the world’s climate goals, the U.N. World Meteorological Organization ...

GENEVA — The three main greenhouse gases hit record high levels in the atmosphere last year, the U.N. weather agency said Wednesday, calling it an "ominous" sign as war in Ukraine, rising costs ...

A team of 60 international scientists report that by early 2028 society will have emitted enough greenhouse gases that the ...

New Brunswick's biggest industrial carbon emitters pumped out lower amounts of greenhouse gases in 2023, but the reductions ...