Levels of carbon dioxide — the most abundant planet-warming gas in the air — jumped up by a record amount in 2024.

Scientists are worried because they can’t fully explain the big jump, but they think it might mean that carbon absorption by forests, fields and wetlands is slowing down—a major problem for the world.

Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has spiked to levels not seen in millions of years on Earth due mainly to the burning of ...

The lack of context minimized the government’s own findings that atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide — the most abundant planet-warming gas in the air — jumped up by a record amount in 2024.

Rising temperatures and higher carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have been linked to increased concentrations of ...

NOAA research shows it would take the average tree more than 1500 years to sequester the amount of carbon dioxide a whale can ...

In UK, Project SeaCURE is pioneering technology to extract CO₂ directly from seawater, enhancing the ocean's natural carbon ...

Japan’s largest test plant for direct air capture (DAC) technology, which combats global warming by extracting carbon dioxide ...

Major economies are overstating how much carbon their forests can absorb in a climate accounting fudge that could allow them ...

Acting as a vast carbon sink, it absorbs nearly a quarter of the carbon dioxide (CO₂ ... allowing it to absorb even more from the atmosphere. This approach offers a promising new tool in ...

As part of The World's ongoing series The Big Fix, Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Susanna Lidström, a researcher at the KTH ...