A scientist explains how global warming is affecting the entire world – from the mountains, to the sea.
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Electricity consumption will grow as more people switch to electric cars – but this could drive up emissions, unless power is sourced from renewables.
Don’t let stock markets reports convince you that when the markets are up, all is well in the world. When the market is up, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is up, and the global environment is down.
Thousands of years ago, carbon gases trapped on the seafloor escaped, causing drastic warming that helped end the last ice age. A scientist says climate change could cause this process to repeat.
Phytoplankton are tiny, but they do important work.
The Earth’s past shows the key role of CO₂ on climate for 4.45 billion years, and how human industrial activity has disrupted its cycle at an unprecedented rate over the past 160 years.
In the eastern reaches of Siberia, scientists discovered plants with exceptional cold tolerance that could be the key to sustainable bioenergy production.
The Drax biomass plant in Yorkshire is the first in the world to pioneer carbon capture and some specialists see it as it has a bright future. But hold the rosy headlines.
Many researchers have studied the impact of carbon dioxide and heat on crop growth inside greenhouses. But what happens in the real world? One team has just done this and the results are surprising.
Brexit may be an unexpected boon for the UK’s climate leadership. Here’s how the UK can seize the initiative.
For the second year in a row global greenhouse emissions from fossil fuels have risen, putting 2018 on course to set a new record, according to an annual audit from the Global Carbon Project.
Replanting the world’s great forests should be a central demand at COP24.
Increase of carbon dioxide in the ocean affects the way fish detect predators, mates or food and could threaten not only individual fish but entire populations.
One big problem with plastics is that they’re largely made of petroleum. Sourcing bio-polymers from plants and bacteria has some big benefits – and the technology is starting to take off.
The idea of a renewable energy transition is exciting. It opens up space to think about enhancing democracy and decolonization.
Woody plants’ cover has increased across large swathes of the continent in the past three decades.
Urban trees are literally made with the help of human breath – they turn the carbon dioxide we breathe out into the building blocks of plant growth. So your local trees have a piece of you inside them.
Technology exists to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere but it has a big cost.
New research has suggested a fresh way to account for greenhouse gases with different lifetimes in the atmosphere.
In an increasingly urban world, trees can make a major difference. One study found that, for every dollar invested in planting, megacities saw a $2.50 return on their investment.
Top contributors
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Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Environment; Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO
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Research Group Leader, CSIRO
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Royal Society Research Professor of Climate Change Science, University of East Anglia
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Honorary Fellow, CSIRO
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Senior Researcher, Center for International Climate and Environment Research - Oslo
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Senior Researcher, Center for International Climate and Environment Research - Oslo
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Professor, Department of Earth System Science, and Chair of the Global Carbon Project, Stanford University
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Chair, Mathematical Modelling of Climate, University of Exeter
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Professor and Climate Scientist, Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, Concordia University
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Professor of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, University of Sheffield
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Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW
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CO2Chem Network Manager, University of Sheffield
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Senior Research Scientist, CSIRO
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Head of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, University of Oxford
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Géochimiste, chargé de recherche CNRS au Centre de recherches pétrographiques et géochimiques de Nancy, Université de Lorraine