Removing trees deprives the forest of portions of its canopy, which blocks the sun’s rays during the day and retains heat at ...

By Marlowe Starling The Van Eck Forest in northwestern California is home to iconic coast redwood trees, which store more ...

This new technology turns everyday carbon emissions into a useful chemical—right at the source, even from thin air.

Google's carbon capture facility in Illinois is the first in a series of projects to reduce emissions from gas plants ...

Researchers have uncovered surprising evidence that the deep ocean’s carbon-fixing engine works very differently than long assumed. While ammonia-oxidizing archaea were thought to dominate carbon ...

Wildebeest migration, calving, and grazing help the Serengeti soil store thousands of pounds of carbon dioxide per acre.

U.S. forests have stored more carbon in the past two decades than at any time in the last century, an increase attributable to a mix of natural factors and human activity, finds a new study.

A new method to capture carbon dioxide from the air has been developed at the University of Helsinki's chemistry department. The ease of releasing CO 2 is the key advantage of the new compound. In ...

“Doesn’t it feel otherworldly out here?” says Colleen Durkin from the lower deck of the Rachel Carson as it glides out from the Moss Landing Harbor more than an hour before sunrise. Durkin, the lead ...

VO2 max is an intimidating word for an easy-to-understand biometric: It’s how well your body uses oxygen when you push ...

Flue gas is exhausted from home furnaces, fireplaces and even industrial plants, and it carries polluting carbon dioxide (CO2 ...

Learning how pronghorn survived the climate changes that ended the ice ages anddrove so many other large mammals to ...