Earth inhales and exhales carbon, indicating where and when vegetation is growing (sucking up carbon dioxide) or dying off ...

These climate-change-fighting ideas sound outlandish. Even if they did work, critics worry they could backfire spectacularly.

A new study has revealed that the warming and drying of tropical forest soils could heighten the vulnerability of soil carbon ...

Despite covering just 2% of the ocean, coastal wetlands—such as tidal salt marshes, mangrove forests and seagrass beds—are ...

Excess carbon dioxide emitted by human activities—such as fossil fuel ... Wei-Jun Cai, associate dean for research and the Mary A.S. Lighthipe Chair Professor of Earth, Ocean, and Environment, was ...

Amid an onslaught of lethal heat, surging disease and record-breaking storms, global temperatures this summer climbed to the ...

A new study addresses the lack of data on how much human-generated carbon dioxide is present in coastal ... Mary A.S. Lighthipe Chair Professor of Earth, Ocean, and Environment, was Li's advisor ...

The symptoms of climate change are alarmingly clear, and worsening every year. The climate report for the year 2023 was no ...

As Earth warms, the Arctic Ocean’s ability to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is ... due to intensifying erosion, storms, sea level rise and melting sea ice, which are also ...

Human activities, we know, have increased carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere by a third since ... How do we keep striving to provide a sustainable earth in every sector? The answer is not new: ...