Using cars and burning coal are examples of things that may cause environmental problems for all of us in the future. an ...

Any project, supported or not by a committee, that is currently being worked on or is considered active, and will have an end date. Decades of climate research and data have yielded expanded ...

Gov. Tom Wolf’s quick signing of House Bill 1059, a $1.75 billion dollar subsidy to use fracked gas (aka methane) in manufacturing and petrochemical facilities through 2050, makes it even more urgent ...

Paris — Greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere reached record highs in 2023, the United Nations warned on Monday, saying countries are falling "miles short" of what's needed to curb ...

The cause of global warming shows no sign of slowing down: Levels of the three most significant human-caused greenhouse gases – carbon dioxide (CO2), methane and nitrous oxide – continued their steady ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

A study shows that global atmospheric dust -- microscopic airborne particles from desert dust storms -- has a slight overall cooling effect on the planet that has hidden the full amount of warming ...

The assessment contradicts the Trump administration’s legal arguments for relaxing pollution rules. By Brad Plumer Reporting from Washington The nation’s leading scientific advisory body issued a ...

California is poised to fail to meet its ambitious greenhouse gas reduction goals by the end of the decade unless it can triple its efforts to reduce carbon emissions statewide, according to a ...

When it comes to a cleaner environment, there’s a lot of work to be done. This includes finding ways to manage substances produced by humans that further contribute to climate change and the damaging ...