Microplastics could be disrupting how oceans absorb and store carbon, potentially undermining a natural buffer that helps ...

A new study reveals that microplastics are impairing the oceans' ability to absorb carbon dioxide, a process scientists find ...

By 2100, it predicted that if no action is taken to lower our fossil fuel use (a scenario called RCP8.5 by the UN’s ...

Trees are known for absorbing CO2. But microbes in their bark also absorb other climate-active gases, methane, hydrogen, and ...

Permafrost holds thousands of years worth of microorganisms and carbon, and as it thaws in our warming climate, it releases ...

We already knew forests were heavy lifters in reducing climate pollution. New research reveals the tiny microbes in tree bark ...

We need forest-like governance, financing, and enforcement to ensure its future, argues Francisco de Melo Viríssimo The ocean is central to the stability of the Earth’s climate system and to life as ...

Climate change also alters nitrogen in soils and plants, shaping food quality, water safety, and pollution risks worldwide.

To understand how global warming could influence future climate, scientists look to the Paleogene Period that began 66 ...

New research points to an unexpected way plastic pollution may be influencing Earth’s climate system. A recent study suggests that microscopic plastic pollution is reducing the ocean’s capacity to ...

Fields of wheat, rice and corn might feel far from climate negotiations, yet they hold surprising power over the planet’s ...

CO2 can stimulate plant growth, but only when enough nitrogen is available—and that key ingredient has been seriously ...