An experiment in western China over the past four decades shows that it is possible to tame the expansion of desert lands ...

Removing trees deprives the forest of portions of its canopy, which blocks the sun’s rays during the day and retains heat at ...

Preventing high blood glucose (pre-diabetes) from turning into type 2 diabetes with lifestyle changes could more than halve ...

An array of animals and plants survive winter in the subnivium, nature’s igloo. But climate change is threatening this hidden ...

Until now, countries lagging behind others in cutting carbon emissions haven’t faced any downsides apart from higher energy costs. All international climate agreements are effectively voluntary. But ...

When global leaders signed the Paris Agreement in 2015, pledging to limit global warming beneath 2 degrees C, it was widely expected that carbon markets would play a key role in meeting this target.

The European Union has provisionally agreed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 90 percent (based on 1990 levels) by 2040, the EU parliament announced in a press release. That goes beyond the goals ...

“The goal was to understand what’s really happening when carbonate rocks encounter high levels of carbon dioxide,” the study’s lead researcher explains. Scientists in Israel have developed a method to ...

2025 may be the year that China’s greenhouse gas emissions begin a long-term downward trend – but right now that landmark is still hanging in the balance. China is the world’s largest emitter of ...

A climate report projects that the world's carbon emissions are on track to hit an all-time high this year, despite major advances in green tech and adoption of measures to curb pollution from the use ...

Carbon capture scientists warn that nations are using their technology as cover to avoid cutting fossil fuel emissions rather than reducing them. About 60 countries updated climate plans since ...

The projected rise in CO2 emissions in 2025 is driven by growth in coal, like the coal-fired plant pictured, as well as oil and gas, according to the 2025 Global Carbon Budget Report. Global carbon ...