Scientists at the University of California, Irvine have discovered that climate change is causing nitrous oxide, a potent ...

A new NASA climate simulation suggests that extremely large volcanic eruptions called “flood basalt eruptions” might significantly warm Earth’s climate and devastate the ozone layer that shields life ...

On Saturday 16 th September, Kenya joins the international community in marking the 2023 World Ozone Day, also known as the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer. During this ...

On September 16, 1987, the international community did something almost unheard of, especially in today's world: It worked together to protect the planet. Ultimately ratified by 198 nations, including ...

At its annual conference on climate change this week, the United Nations released a major report saying the world has little hope of reaching global climate targets without quickly lowering emissions ...

Climate change is speeding up the destruction of nitrous oxide in the stratosphere, introducing uncertainty into future greenhouse gases level.

Long before climate policy became a staple of global summits, a young researcher stumbled onto a powerful driver of warming that most of the world had overlooked. His work revealed that the planet was ...

The sky is getting crowded. In the last few years, the number of satellite launches has increased by an order of magnitude as mega-constellations of internet-powering hardware crowd into low Earth ...

In the 1980s and 1990s, the world's governments came together in a rare show of cooperation to rid Earth's atmosphere of certain ozone-depleting substances (ODSs). Used mainly in air conditioning and ...

Mass extinctions are very important to how life evolved on Earth. For example, when an asteroid hit the Earth 66 million years ago, the resulting dinosaur extinction led mammals to take their place.

Spacecraft burning up in the atmosphere are leaving behind metal particles. Scientists are racing to understand if that affects the climate. One risk is that these particles may spark rainbow-colored ...