The natural processes of plants was an inspiration for a new mitigation method. Researchers have found a new way to store thousands of years' worth of carbon dioxide and prevent it from being released ...

You would need hundreds to thousands of plants to improve your home's air quality, so a few houseplants won't make much of a ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A new understanding about how plants react to high temperatures may help improve predictions about how climate change will affect the planet. Nick Smith, a Purdue University ...

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Editor’s Note: CNN Films ”Blue Carbon: Nature’s Hidden Power” takes viewers from the mangroves of Vietnam to the salt marshes of France to investigate a powerful new ally in the battle to slow climate ...

Earth’s plants aren’t holding onto carbon as long as we thought. A new analysis of pulses of radioactive carbon-14 from 20th-century bomb tests reveals that plants stock more carbon in short-lived ...

CO2 is a natural part of the planet, but too much has tipped the climate scales. Carbon dioxide may be a naturally occurring substance on Earth, but too much of its presence has contributed to global ...

SIOUX FALLS — A company proposing an $8 billion carbon dioxide pipeline says the project would be good for the environment. The claim is based on the heat-trapping carbon dioxide emitted by ethanol ...

Over the last decade, humanity's emissions of carbon dioxide (CO₂) have stabilized after a period of huge growth. Average growth is now down to just 0.6% per year, compared to 2% per year in the ...