WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Climate-warming carbon dioxide spewed by coal-fired power plants and fossil-fueled vehicles has been causing hundreds of premature U.S. deaths each year over the several decades ...

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

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 ...

Carbon dioxide is accumulating in the atmosphere faster than ever — accelerating on a steep rise to levels far above any experienced during human existence, scientists from NOAA and Scripps ...

Scientists examine a large dike, formed from a sheet of magma that came to Earth’s surface millions of years ago during the Columbia River Basalt eruptions. These dikes fed magma to massive eruptions.

A crowd of people take part in a climate strike protest. (Mika Baumeister / Unsplash) For more than half a century, from a remote monitoring station atop Hawaii’s dormant volcano Mauna Kea, the ...

U.S. forests have stored unprecedented levels of carbon in recent years, driven by a mix of climate forces and human land-use choices.

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The idea of carbon offsetting originally sounded pretty good to many people concerned with climate change. With Earth’s temperature rising quickly because of humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions and ...