Louisiana is the latest US state to label LNG as "green" energy. But how can a fossil fuel that emits many planet-heating greenhouse gases be clean?

A third greenhouse gas is nitrous oxide. Recall our atmosphere is mainly nitrogen gas. When air is used as the source of oxygen for the combustion of fossil fuels such as gasoline or coal, nitrous ...

Satellite data suggests cloud darkening is responsible for much of the warming since 2001, and the good news is that it is a ...

Melting glaciers in Greenland are unleashing hidden methane and shifting soils from carbon sinks to warming sources.

The greenhouse effect is the process by which certain gases trap heat in Earth’s atmosphere, similar to how a car heats up in the sun. This keeps the planet warm enough for life.

News about Greenhouse Gas Emissions, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Battery electric cars sold in Europe today produce 73% less life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions than their gasoline ...

Moreover, the authors found that the heatwaves that last longest are increasing the most. In equatorial Africa, for instance, ...

The US Department of Defense has acknowledged that climate change is one of the biggest threats to global security currently facing the world. In a twist of irony, the biggest producer of greenhouse ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Humans are on track to release so much greenhouse gas in less than three years that a key threshold for limiting global warming will be nearly unavoidable, according to a study ...

That level of gas accumulation, which comes from the burning of fuels like gasoline, oil and coal, is sooner than the same group of 60 international scientists calculated in a study last year.