Forests take longer than expected to rebound from droughts, diminishing their role as global carbon sinks.
Articles on Carbon dioxide (CO2)
Displaying 301 - 320 of 374 articles
Scientists build network of inexpensive air monitors to track emissions with fine-grained spatial detail – an alternative to satellites or pricey land-based CO2 monitors.
Rather than impose regulations to limit carbon emissions, policies should focus on innovation and systems change through social sciences.
We have hit a new milestone in carbon dioxide levels: the average for February topped 400ppm. It’s the first time this has happened in the northern winter, when levels are typically lower than in summer.
A new form of engine can capture the energy released when solid carbon dioxide turns into gas.
Emissions fell by six times the rate in the five years before the carbon tax than they did under the carbon tax. – Environment minister Greg Hunt, The Guardian, January 17, 2015. Australia’s total greenhouse…
Earth’s climate is changing rapidly. We know this from billions of observations, documented in thousands of journal papers and texts and summarized every few years by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental…
You may not have heard of them or given them much thought, but phytoplankton — the microscopic plants that grow throughout the world’s oceans — are the foundation of oceanic food webs. Although tiny, they…
If you use the full Kyoto period — 1990 to 2020 — the US is minus 5% and Australia is almost exactly the same. Environment minister Greg Hunt, Radio National, November 17. *We and the United States are…
Most of the energy that fuels our lives comes from plants. Whether it is a fossil fuel that was formed hundreds of millions of years ago or the food we eat, all carbon-borne energy has its ultimate origins…
“But who do you think’s right, Prof? The optimists or the pessimists?” At the end of my sustainability economics course in 2007, students were challenging me to end 20 years of professional fence-sitting…
Reef historian Iain McCalman, in Sydney, and reef scientist Stephen Palumbi, in California, are monitoring reef degradation from opposite sides of the planet. They compared notes. Iain McCalman: A recent…
One of nature’s most spectacular events occurs every autumn, when the leaves of hardwood trees burst into brilliant color before falling to the ground. These autumnal displays in the eastern United States…
To have any chance of avoiding dangerous climate change we’ll have to reduce the carbon emissions from our energy sectors — currently the largest human source of greenhouse gas emissions globally. And…
Through burning fossil fuels, humans are rapidly driving up levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which in turn is raising global temperatures. But not all the CO2 released from burning coal, oil…
The latest report on global carbon emissions released this week revealed that carbon dioxide emissions will likely reach 40 billion tonnes this year. Growth in emissions continues to match the worst-case…
A sponge like polymer for adsorbing carbon dioxide in power plant flue gas has been developed. Previous substances for carbon…
Significantly diminished water quality now joins the host of other risks associated with palm oil plantations. Researchers…
Rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may be reducing the nutritional quality of food, new research shows. Researchers…
The Saharan dust that clogged air and dirtied cars recently may seem like a nuisance, but in fact contains some essential nutrients – if, that is, you’re phytoplankton. The dust and sand blown from Africa…
Top contributors
-
Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Environment; Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO
-
Research Group Leader, CSIRO
-
Royal Society Research Professor of Climate Change Science, University of East Anglia
-
Honorary Fellow, CSIRO
-
Senior Researcher, Center for International Climate and Environment Research - Oslo
-
Senior Researcher, Center for International Climate and Environment Research - Oslo
-
Professor, Department of Earth System Science, and Chair of the Global Carbon Project, Stanford University
-
Chair, Mathematical Modelling of Climate, University of Exeter
-
Professor and Climate Scientist, Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, Concordia University
-
Professor of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, University of Sheffield
-
Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW
-
CO2Chem Network Manager, University of Sheffield
-
Senior Research Scientist, CSIRO
-
Head of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, University of Oxford
-
Géochimiste, chargé de recherche CNRS au Centre de recherches pétrographiques et géochimiques de Nancy, Université de Lorraine