World has already breached carbon emission threshold

Even as nations commit to reduce carbon emissions, global carbon dioxide levels have gone past the safe limit of 350 parts per million and …

EU cannot use ‘nature-based solutions’ to make up for lack of emissions cuts

Over-estimating the potential of such solutions is bad for biodiversity and the climate

‘The Earth is revealing the carbon cycle to modern science’

Balz S Kamber speaks to Down To Earth about the effect of anthropogenic emissions on the global carbon cycle

Getting warmer

Compressed to cool

On the right track

Bacteria to battle waste on trains

Rising CO2 emissions may affect labour productivity in developing countries: Study

Agriculture, mining and quarrying, manufacturing and construction — sectors which account for 73 per cent of output in poor countries' are …

When the pot calls the kettle black

Involuntarism

Highest carbon concentration in atmosphere in 3 million years: WMO

The new WMO Greenhouse Gas Bulletin says CO2 concentration in atmosphere has breached all recent records

Rapid thaw of permafrost can release large volumes of greenhouse gases

Scientists have warned that vast swaths of permafrost across the Arctic may thaw much before the current projections, releasing vast amounts of …

Simply put: Global demand of fossil fuels up by 78%

Killed by a belch

Carbon dioxide, the killer gas in today's world seems to have been the culprit aeons ago too. It has been identified as the gas which possibly …

A pleasant wash

A new detergent can help reduce waste emissions during dry-cleaning

A no to yes

The Netherlands has weakened its decision to cut carbon dioxide emissions by the year 2000

United effort

EU rejects allowance hike

CCUS: A climate-friendly approach to India’s $5 trillion economy

CCUS combined with EOR can be a win-win situation for India

Ancient Venus was potentially habitable for three billion years: Study

The planet had stable temperatures — between a maximum of about 50°C and a minimum of about 20°C — and water worth a shallow ocean

Inverse proportion: species quantum and carbon dioxide

The extinction of species decreases plant productivity and impairs the functions of an ecosystem -- like mopping up carbon dioxide

Gasping for breath

Entire tree species face the threat of extinction from the increasing concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide

Beware the technology bait

The bacteria behind the iron curtain

Microbiologists say a species of bacteria was responsible for iron deposits in the sedimentary layers that run hundreds of kilometres deep in the …

A drop of wood alcohal helps to perk up plants

Plants grow taller and faster if sprayed with a solution of methanol, claims an American farmer

The weather out there