Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas with strong heat-trapping capabilities. Although there is less methane in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide, the foremost greenhouse gas, researchers attribute 30 ...

Climate change makes nitrous oxide disappear faster, creating new uncertainty for future climate and ozone predictions.

Beneath the Earth’s surface lies the core, a scorching sphere of iron surrounded by a layer of molten metal. Temperatures at the core reach approximately 6,000°C (10,800°F), comparable to the surface ...

Thousands of satellites that disintegrate upon re-entry release aluminum into the atmosphere, disrupting polar winds and the ...

Tiny marine plankton that build calcium carbonate shells play an outsized role in regulating Earth’s climate, quietly pulling carbon from the atmosphere and helping lock it away in the deep ocean. New ...

Oxygen is everywhere on Earth today. But that hasn’t always been the case. Scientists think oxygen only became a lasting part ...

New research reveals the source of this carbon – and the driving forces behind it – are far more complex than previously ...

The world is warming. This fact is most often discussed for Earth's surface, where we live. But the climate is also changing ...

When you learned about the center of the Earth in school, you were probably shown a diagram that looked like a perfect layer ...

Methane comes in different isotopic signatures. Methane from fossil fuels like natural gas leaks or coal mines is heavier, ...

A new study reveals that chemicals used to replace ozone-damaging CFCs are now driving a surge in a persistent “forever ...