Carbon dioxide

Slow growth and sickness are in stock for coral reefs if we continue putting carbon dioxide into the ocean.

With unequivocal evidence that humans are warming the planet, what does the future hold for the ocean and for us?

An increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations helped end the last ice age. But what caused the carbon dioxide increase…

Changes in the Southern Ocean can affect global climate, and understanding the Southern Ocean’s response to climate change helps us…

Since 2000, atmospheric CO2 hasn’t been rising as quickly as we expected. It may be because plants on land have…

Ocean CO2 levels vary depending on the time of year. Landschützer and his colleagues are the first to show that…

Thanks to NASA’s new Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 satellite, we now know when and where CO2 levels change during El Niño,…

Ice cover on earth extends and recedes over thousands of years. But what drives these fluctuations? Moreover, what guarantees that…

The bad news: coastal frozen sediments in the Arctic are melting and emitting methane, a potent greenhouse gas, into the…

The ocean is acidifying in response to carbon dioxide emissions, but we are just beginning to learn how this effects…

Chemistry

Our world relies heavily on the burning of biological materials such as wood or fossil fuels to harness energy. While…

The increase in global atmospheric CO2 concentrations may be causing major food crops, like wheat, to have lower amounts of…