Scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, have been tracking concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide and methane since the 1980s. For the second year in a row, ...

The Arctic is heating faster than any other region on Earth, and scientists now say a newly identified chain reaction in the ...

Warming in the Arctic is intensifying methane emissions, contributing to a vicious feedback loop that could accelerate climate change even more, according to a new study published May 7 in Nature.

When most Americans hear the term “climate change,” they probably think about CO2 in the atmosphere and rising temperatures; or maybe weather-related disasters; or melting Arctic sea ice.

A troubling new study suggests that melting Arctic glaciers are releasing ancient stores of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere. According to the study, which examined glacier ...

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View of the front side of the University Centre in Svalbard, in Longyearbyen, with the Adventfjorden fjord visible behind it. (Bernt Rostad/Flickr via Courthouse News) (CN) — Beneath the frigid ...

The latest study finds that emissions of the potent greenhouse gas might be higher than previously estimated. Warming in the Arctic is intensifying methane emissions, contributing to a vicious ...