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The increase in the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere last year was the biggest ever recorded, the United Nations ...

The assessment contradicts the Trump administration’s legal arguments for relaxing pollution rules. By Brad Plumer Reporting from Washington The nation’s leading scientific advisory body issued a ...

Wastewater plants emit about twice as much greenhouse gas as previously believed, according to Princeton engineers who used a ...

Researchers have quantified how meat consumption in the U.S. is contributing to the greenhouse gas emissions responsible for ...

Tesla has asked the Environmental Protection Agency not to rescind the 2009 endangerment finding, which deems that greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles pose a threat to public health and welfare.

Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have reached the highest ever recorded, potentially further warming the planet and ...