The other greenhouse gases warming the planet While carbon dioxide, or CO2, is the best known greenhouse gas, several others, including methane and nitrous oxide, are also driving global warming and ...

So why is our planet alone so hospitable? In part, we owe our existence to a process called the greenhouse effect. Inside an artificial greenhouse filled with plants, the surrounding glass traps ...

Several Japanese residents invested in a U.S. venture touting to cool the Earth by spreading aerosols in the sky and ...

The greenhouse effect happens when certain gases, which are known as greenhouse gases, accumulate in Earth’s atmosphere. Greenhouse gases include carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide ...

CO2 is used in greenhouses to boost plant growth. CO2 is also causing modern global warming by slowing the escape of heat ...

The next challenge is to maintain a warm enough temperature for liquid water. Earth achieves this through the atmosphere's greenhouse effect, which won't be an option for a smaller biological space ...

This air sampling station at Mauna Loa observatory in Hawaii recorded CO2 levels going past 400ppm The greenhouse effect means that as the atmospheric loading of GHGs increases the surface ...

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 ...

The Grand Palais—which is by some measures a very opulent greenhouse—was swelteringly hot on an unseasonably warm VIP day, a feeling heightened by what seemed like particularly crowded halls.

Greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere reached record highs in 2023, the U.N. warned, with countries falling "miles ...

Another record. This should set alarm bells ringing among decision-makers," WMO chief Celeste Saulo said in a statement."We are clearly off track to meet the Paris Agreement goal."  Under the 2015 ...