After yet another international climate summit ended last fall without binding commitments to phase out fossil fuels, a ...

While our atmosphere is primarily composed of nitrogen, thankfully, it also contains oxygen. Water also plays a significant ...

Background The carbon footprint of end-to-end healthcare deliveries by the National Health Service in England totalled 25.0 megatons of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) in 2019. Optimal and ...

Researchers at Cambridge University made a big splash in April last year when they announced that they had strong evidence ...

The last time you scrubbed a streaky window or polished a porcelain appliance, you probably used a chemical called ammonia.

From smart materials and medical breakthroughs to climate solutions, ancient history, and animal communication ...

Turning carbon dioxide into usable fuel with nothing more than sunlight has long sounded like science fiction. A wave of recent breakthroughs now suggests it is edging into engineering reality, with ...

With climate change posing an unprecedented global challenge, the demand for environmentally friendly solvents in green chemical processes and carbon dioxide capture has surged. Ionic liquids (ILs) ...

Ancient lava rubble on the seafloor can store huge amounts of carbon dioxide like a giant "sponge," a new study finds. Cores collected from beneath the southern Atlantic Ocean show that this rubble — ...

The average level of carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere had its largest one-year increase on record between 2023 and 2024. In 2024, the level reached 423.9 parts per million, an increase of 3.5 ...

But there are signs that greenhouse gas pollution in China might be slowing, according to a new analysis. By Brad Plumer Reporting from Belém, Brazil Global fossil fuel emissions are on track to soar ...