It seems every year lately is a world-beater. As in, the violent kind of “beating”: we’ve seen new record high temperatures again and again and again; groundwater is disappearing faster than ever ...

Rising carbon dioxide levels are heating the planet but may also have an alarming, invisible impact on the human body, ...

Scot Miller is an assistant professor in Johns Hopkins University's Department of Environmental Health and Engineering whose research focuses on greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution. His ...

This plant (left), found along the slopes of Mount Everest, grows in individual layers (right) that have been used to understand how atmospheric mercury levels have changed in the past 40 years.

Greenhouse gases levels in the atmosphere, the main driver of climate change, hit a record high last year, the UN said Monday, calling for action to safeguard "the future welfare of mankind". "There ...

Researchers have created a dataset of the whole atmosphere, enabling new research to be conducted on previously difficult-to-study regions. Using a new data-assimilation system called JAGUAR-DAS, ...

Mercury is released by environmental and human-driven processes. Some forms, specifically methylmercury, are toxic to humans. Therefore, policies and regulations to limit mercury emissions have been ...

Humans evolved in an atmosphere containing roughly 200–300 parts per million (ppm) of carbon dioxide (CO₂). Today, that ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. UN said that the levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have increased. [Photo: AFP] The levels of greenhouse ...