Using fossil fuels releases much more of the potent greenhouse gas methane than previously thought — possibly 25 to 40 percent more, new research suggests. The finding could help scientists and policy ...

A new analysis of satellite data finds that the record surge in atmospheric methane emissions from 2020 to 2022 was driven by increased inundation and water storage in wetlands, combined with a slight ...

Just over a decade ago, scientists found that methane -- a potent greenhouse gas -- had begun to rapidly increase in our atmosphere. The amounts of gas leaking into the sky has risen each year since, ...

Commercial Fishing Disrupts an ocean carbon sink driven by the seafloor. Image: Johner Images/Getty Images Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs ...

Large increases in Asian industrial emissions of nitrogen oxides in the next 30 years could lead to a tripling of the acid rain there due to these pollutants. Worldwide, more than 40 trillion grams ...

Canada's 2023 wildfires, the worst on record, burned an area roughly the size of Florida Canada’s record wildfires last year produced more carbon emissions than the burning of fossil fuels in all but ...

The seafloor off the coast of Northern Siberia is releasing more than twice the amount of methane as previously estimated, according to new research results. The seafloor off the coast of Northern ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. “The amount of methane currently coming out of the East Siberian Arctic Shelf is ...

As the world warms, glaciers around the world are rapidly hemorrhaging ice and threatening catastrophic sea level rise. But melting glaciers also pose another kind of menace: the release of vast ...

Earth was likely around 18ºF warmer on average during the Mesozoic Era, with high levels of greenhouse gases, high humidity, and no permanent ice sheets like Antarctica and Greenland. The high ...

Nearly half of the tiny droplets and particles suspended high in the atmosphere over North America come from other continents, an examination of satellite data reveals. "That is a big number: half. I ...

A string of ‘gates over the past few months — Climategate, Himalayagate, among others — have landed some hard punches on the politics of climate change science. They haven’t laid a glove on the ...