Carbon dioxide (CO2) blood tests evaluate the presence of the gas in your blood. If your CO2 levels rise too high or fall too low, the test results may be an indication that you have a health ...

Carbon credits are essentially permits that allow the purchaser to emit a certain amount of carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases. Some carbon markets are run and regulated by governments or ...

Carbon capture and storage is where carbon dioxide (CO2) produced from power stations and industrial processes is captured at source, rather than escaping into the atmosphere and adding to global ...

NASA's Webb Space Telescope has identified new clues about the surface of Pluto's largest moon. It detected for the first time traces of carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on the surface of ...

A recent study published in Science has detailed the temperature variations over the last 485 million years, highlighting a significant correlation between Earth’s temperature and atmospheric carbon ...

For a little more than a century, chemists have believed that strong atomic links called covalent bonds are formed when atoms share one or more electron pairs. Now, researchers have made the first ...

Researchers added red dye to the waters off Martha’s Vineyard last year as the initial step in an experiment in increasing the ocean’s ability to absorb carbon ...

The food system is one of the most significant sources of greenhouse gas emissions on the planet, making the reduction of emissions in this sector a priority for policymakers around the world.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Economists are rarely ever unanimous. But one matter on which they almost all agree is the need for carbon ...

This fossil palm leaf (Sabalites sp.), discovered in Petersburg Borough, Alaska, is on display in “The David H. Koch Hall of Fossils—Deep Time” at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.

Each credit represents a reduction of one ton of carbon dioxide emissions. Critics of carbon offset markets, including Greenpeace, say they allow emitters to keep releasing greenhouse gases.