A study published Dec. 29 in Environmental Science & Technology, a journal of the American Chemical Society, found that ...

If aliens modified a planet in their solar system to make it warmer, we'd be able to tell. A new study identifies the artificial greenhouse gases that would be giveaways of a terraformed planet. If ...

President Donald Trump's administration is preparing to upend a foundational scientific determination about the harms of greenhouse gases that underpins the US government's ability to curb climate ...

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 ...

An Oct. 11 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows an image of Earth and another, larger planet beside it. "This is K2-18b, a potentially habitable planet covered with oceans and about 2.6 ...

In a first, a California man was charged with sneaking banned gases, used in outdated fridges and air-conditioners, into the United States. By Hiroko Tabuchi The unusual contraband is sold on ...

Of all the planets in our solar system, the Earth is the only one that—as far as we know—supports life. So why is our planet alone so hospitable? In part, we owe our existence to a process called the ...

Greenhouse gases containing fluorine molecules are among the worst environmental offenders because they trap heat in the Earth’s atmosphere most efficiently, according to a new NASA study. For the ...