Scientists are worried because they can’t fully explain the big jump, but they think it might mean that carbon absorption by forests, fields and wetlands is slowing down—a major problem for the world.

When bottom trawls are dragged across the seafloor, they stir up sediments. This not only releases previously stored organic carbon, but also intensifies the oxidation of pyrite, a mineral present in ...

Under the Trump administration, NOAA has minimized an announcement that climate-warming carbon dioxide concentrations in the ...

A company that spreads crushed rock on farmers' fields to help draw climate-warming carbon dioxide from the atmosphere has ...

In UK, Project SeaCURE is pioneering technology to extract CO₂ directly from seawater, enhancing the ocean's natural carbon ...

In his California laboratory, Ralph Keeling examines a graph created from data his father began collecting that keeps a ...

TIME speaks with the winner of the XPrize Carbon Removal award, Mati Carbon, which was announced at the TIME100 Summit.

We expel carbon dioxide as waste. Naked mole rats bathe their brains in it to prevent seizures. The unique animals thrive ...

A few decades ago, it wasn't realistic to attribute individual events—even heat waves—to the general warming trend driven by ...

Acting as a vast carbon sink, it absorbs nearly a quarter of the carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions produced by human activities, especially from the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil ...

New space satellites can see through forest canopies to track carbon storage, forest growth, and climate patterns.