Traditional cooling systems for buildings use refrigerants and electricity, which contribute to the atmospheric greenhouse ...

It is important for new evidence to be shared with as many people as possible, so that other scientists can check the results and interpretation, and repeat the experiments for themselves.

American suffragist and amateur scientist Eunice Newton Foote discovered the greenhouse effect in ... Eunice Newton Foote had conducted experiments using glass cylinders filled with ...

Greenhouses can be good for growing plants. But when applied to the whole planet, the greenhouse effect is bad news. We call the compounds in the atmosphere that trap Earth’s heat, such as ...

resulting from increased levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere (i.e., the “greenhouse effect”; IPCC 2007; Figure 1). The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon permitting life to ...

Carbon dioxide (CO 2) is a greenhouse gas. This means that it causes an effect like the glass in a greenhouse, trapping heat and warming up the inside. This effect is important: without the CO 2 that ...