Congress and federal regulators are poised to make a misguided and reckless decision that will stifle our economy recovery and spur long-term damage to plant and animal life on earth. In the coming ...

For years, scientists haven’t been able to pin down just how much carbon plants take in, or where and when they do it. (CREDIT: CC BY-SA 4.0) Plants play a huge role in shaping Earth’s climate.

A study recently published in the journal Nature finds plants have been absorbing 31 percent more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than previously assumed and modeled. The international team of ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Burning fossil fuels and other human activities have raised the amount of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the Earth's ...

If plants are soaking up less CO2 than expected, the remaining carbon budget for avoiding dangerous warming is smaller than policymakers and the public have been led to believe. I see three big ...

Figure shows that wildfires are much more responsive to the fertilizer effect of CO2 than to the greenhouse gas alone without considering this effect. By fueling the growth of plants that become ...

The last time the atmosphere contained as much carbon dioxide as it does now, dinosaurs roamed what was then a verdant landscape. The earth’s lushness was at least partly caused by the abundance of ...