Carbon dioxide is accumulating in the atmosphere faster than ever — accelerating on a steep rise to levels far above any experienced during human existence, scientists from NOAA and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego announced today.

To keep warming in check, some experts have proposed brightening clouds over the ocean to reflect more of the sun’s light. 

What do you give to an ocean that has everything? 

An area of high pressure lingered in the upper atmosphere over the U.S. Midwest and Northeast in June 2024. 

Climate change has already begun to transform planet Earth, and over the next few decades these dramatic transformations are expected to accelerate in an ongoing response to greenhouse gas emissions.

Adults with a history of low back pain lasted nearly twice as long without a recurrence if they walked regularly, a world-first study has found.

When a solar flare leaps out from around the sun, a small fleet of scientific instruments designed and built at the University of Colorado Boulder form a first line of defense—spotting these massive eruptions before any other instrument in space, then relaying the information to Earth in seconds.

An international team of scientists has recently found that non-native species are expanding their ranges many orders of magnitude faster than native ones, in large part due to inadvertent human help.

Some parts of the world have been so successful in making inexpensive renewable electricity that we occasionally have too much of it.

Enormous islands of it float in our oceans and microscopic particles of it are in our bodies.