Scientists around the world rely on ocean monitoring tools to measure the effects of climate change. Researchers at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and their industry partners have advanced the ...

As we look to the sky above and ponder one of the biggest questions of our time—how to combat the carbon emissions that are driving climate change—a potential answer just may lie beneath our feet, in ...

Scientists around the world rely on ocean monitoring tools to measure the effects of climate change. Researchers advanced the technology available to measure carbon dioxide in the ocean. Scientists ...

Though researchers have been saying for decades that carbon dioxide levels are on the rise, a recent measurement conducted by scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La ...

Claudine Hauri and her industry partners prepare to take measurements of carbon dioxide and other ocean chemistry parameters from aboard the research vessel Nanuq in 2022. Scientists around the world ...

Li Cohen is a senior social media producer at CBS News. She previously wrote for amNewYork and The Seminole Tribune. She mainly covers climate, environmental and weather news. "Over the past year, ...

Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Global Monitoring Laboratory The chart shows monthly numbers of carbon dioxide molecules per million molecules of dry air. Because of seasonal ...

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A Virginia-based scientist and her team ventured to the Antarctic Ocean last month on a mission to provide for the first time a fuller picture of rising carbon dioxide levels and ocean acidification ...

Carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere by human activities influences the amount of the sun’s energy trapped by Earth’s atmosphere. These emissions are the subject of a United Nations climate ...

Excess carbon dioxide emitted by human activities—such as fossil fuel burning, land-use changes, and deforestation—is known as anthropogenic carbon dioxide. Approximately thirty percent of this ...