The Earth’s average global temperature is 1.2 degrees Celsius hotter (around 2.2 degrees Fahrenheit) than in preindustrial times, causing shifts in weather patterns and more frequent and severe ...

Think of a greenhouse. It’s a structure with glass walls that lets light in and traps heat, all for the benefit of the plants inside. As for how it works, that’s elementary! It’s all down to the ...

For the first time, a team of researchers has simulated what would happen if trapped greenhouse gases in the Earth’s atmosphere trigger a snowball effect, causing a dramatic rise in the planet’s ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Friday marks the anniversary of a scientific concept that has dominated and will play a role in countless discussions this century: the greenhouse effect. While its ...

The greenhouse effect is a natural process that warms the Earth’s surface. When sunlight reaches our planet, some of it is absorbed by the ground and oceans, while the rest is reflected back toward ...

MOREHEAD, Ky. (AP) — To harvest tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers, to clip herbs, to prune and propagate succulents, people work in oppressive heat and humidity. Some wring out shirts soaked with sweat.

Vegetation growth at Earth’s northern latitudes increasingly resembles lusher latitudes to the south, according to a NASA-funded study based on a 30-year record of land surface and newly improved ...

Have you ever taken a quick trip to the store on a summer day? You return to your car, open the door, and it’s unbearably hot. That’s the greenhouse effect. Sunlight goes through the glass, heats the ...

For over a century, scientists have been measuring the effects of greenhouse gases on the temperature of the planet. Earth naturally experiences temperature fluctuations, but data tracing back to the ...

image: A soil scientist from RUDN University studied the decomposition of organic matter in rice paddies--the sources of CO2 and methane emissions. Both gases add to the greenhouse effect and affect ...