The levels of the crucial heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere reached historic highs last year, growing at near-record fast paces, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

Smoke billows from a large steel plant on Nov., 4, 2016, in Inner Mongolia, China. Over the industrial era, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased by about 40%, according to the ...

Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere rose by a record amount to new highs in 2024, locking in yet more long-term global warming, UN experts have warned. The annual update by the World ...

The ocean is warming as the upper atmosphere is cooling – both as a result of excessive greenhouse gas emissions.

Mercury pollution levels in the Earth’s atmosphere have spiked by seven times since the modern era began around 1500 CE, new research shows. The work, published as a study in the journal Geophysical ...