Global Warming

An ambitious startup called Climeworks is looking to eat into the world's carbon emissions and has just taken its biggest bite yet, flicking the switch on the largest direct air capture and CO2 storage plant on the planet.

A new study designed to gauge the scale of pollution in the globe's urban areas has concluded that around half come from just 25 cities, with so-called megacities in China and Japan proving to be particularly potent emitters.

We have seen some interesting developments around what's known as self-healing concrete that repairs its own cracks, and scientists have now demonstrated an exciting new form of this that makes use of an enzyme found in human blood.

Researchers have put forward an interesting way of preventing some of this damage brought by ocean acidification, through a study demonstrating how releasing an alkalinizing agent from shipping lanes could help protect much of the Great Barrier Reef.

Scientists measuring concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere at the Mauna Loa Atmospheric Baseline Observatory have reported the highest levels on record, and ones not see on Earth in more than four million years.

Tracking the changes to huge masses of ice is key to understanding the effects of climate change on the planet, and a researchers in Greenland have developed a new tool that takes the accuracy of such measurements to unprecedented levels.

A new study has revealed that Earth’s glaciers have lost a staggering amount of ice over the last two decades, and the rate of loss is accelerating. The global effort used satellite data to track the deteriorating condition of some 220,000 glaciers.

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has stumped up $100 million for a new XPrize competition that takes aim at the problem of carbon pollution, with hopes of unearthing technologies that can remove it from the atmosphere and ocean.

An international team of researchers has made a discovery that could prove useful to the efforts to preserve the world's coral reefs, using the CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing tool to identify a key gene that regulates their response to heat stress.

A new study has found the increasing frequency and severity of storms as a result of climate change to be a key factor in a novel skin disease seen in dolphins, by drastically altering the salinity of the waters the animals inhabit.

Scientists have tapped into geological records to model historical ice sheet changes at either end of the globe and, for the first time, demonstrated how the melting of one has influenced coverage of the other over the past 40,000 years.

With the world continuing to warm and sea levels continuing to rise, NASA and the ESA are eyeing the next decade of climate change and its consequences, launching a new satellite to observe the ocean in greater detail from orbit.