Global warming is accelerating, with 2024 being the hottest year on record. CO2 levels are rising faster than expected.

As we burn fossil fuels, the amount of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere is gradually rising, and with it, the planet's ...

Levels of the most significant planet-warming gas in our atmosphere rose more quickly than ever previously recorded last year ...

Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is increasing at rates that are incompatible with staying below 1.5 degrees Celsius (34.7 ...

Met Office says rises in atmospheric carbon dioxide are off-track for trajectories that keep global warming to 1.5C with no ...

By simulating the future atmosphere, scientists hope to understand whether trees will continue to act as the lungs of the ...

"Once again, the temperature record has been shattered — 2024 was the hottest year since record keeping began in 1880." ...

Wildfires and fossil fuel burning in 2024 contributed to the biggest annual rise in atmospheric CO2 levels ever recorded at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii ...

The change measured by the Mauna Loa Observatory was likely driven by wildfires and continued burning of fossil fuels, ...

More than a third of the Arctic-Boreal Zone (ABZ) – including the tundra, forests, and wetlands around the Arctic Circle – is pushing out carbon rather than sucking it up, according to new research ...

The rate at which atmospheric CO2 is increasing is now outpacing the pathways set out by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that limit global warming to 1.5C. This is what the latest ...

U.S. withdrawal from the world's primary climate pact will have a bigger impact - in the U.S. and globally - than the country ...