About half of all the CO2 humans have ever emitted still hangs over our heads, literally. Since the Industrial Revolution began, that totals nearly 1,000 metric gigatons stuck in the atmosphere. Now, ...

Excess carbon dioxide emitted by human activities—such as fossil fuel burning, land-use changes, and deforestation—is known as anthropogenic carbon dioxide. Approximately thirty percent of this ...

Sept 4 - Carbon dioxide helps plants grow but it can also worsen conditions for plant growth, contrary to a graphic shared on social media that misleadingly suggests higher CO2 in Earth’s atmosphere ...

As humans burn fossil fuels and pump carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, we are heating up the planet. But there is another alarming impact of this climate pollution: it may be changing the chemistry ...