The Earth’s average global temperature is 1.2 degrees Celsius hotter (around 2.2 degrees Fahrenheit) than in preindustrial times, causing shifts in weather patterns and more frequent and severe ...

The World Meteorological Organization says CO2 growth rates have tripled since the 1960s, reaching levels not seen in 800,000 ...

For the first time, a team of researchers has simulated what would happen if trapped greenhouse gases in the Earth’s atmosphere trigger a snowball effect, causing a dramatic rise in the planet’s ...

Our atmosphere is made up of a mix of gases that sustain life by absorbing some solar radiation to heat the planet, allow livings things to breathe, and by transporting water. Nitrogen (78%) and ...

Far above Earth, where the atmosphere as we know it merges into empty space, lies the thermosphere -- home to space stations and satellites and very thin air. Hardly the kind of place, one might think ...

Think of a greenhouse. It’s a structure with glass walls that lets light in and traps heat, all for the benefit of the plants inside. As for how it works, that’s elementary! It’s all down to the ...

Scientists have warned for decades of the deadly impacts of human-caused climate change on Earth. And according to a new study, Mars may offer an example of the damage that can occur to life itself ...

In 1827, French scientist Jean-Baptiste Fourier noticed the similarity between the effect of glass in a greenhouse retaining heat from sunlight in the greenhouse and the similar effect that the ...