Climate change makes nitrous oxide disappear faster, creating new uncertainty for future climate and ozone predictions.

For more than a quarter billion years, coral reefs did far more than brighten shallow seas. Long before humans appeared, ...

But the EPA rescinded the endangerment finding anyway. In the final rule (PDF), the agency avoids any debate over the impact of GHG buildup in the atmosphere. Instead, it claims that it lacks the ...

In this episode of C&EN Uncovered, host Craig Bettenhausen speaks with C&EN reporter Fionna Samuels about her recent C&EN cover story concerning ocean alkalinity enhancement as a method to combat ...

China's sweeping efforts to clean up its air have delivered one of the biggest public health success stories of recent decades. Since the Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan was launched ...

Tiny marine plankton that build calcium carbonate shells play an outsized role in regulating Earth’s climate, quietly pulling carbon from the atmosphere and helping lock it away in the deep ocean. New ...

Models, by definition, are approximations: useful, informative, and inevitably incomplete, because they are the only way to simplify a world too complex to grasp all at once. A new study on nitrous ...

If you know what diatoms are, it's probably because of their beauty. These single-celled algae found on the ocean floor have ornate glassy shells that shine like jewels under the microscope. Subscribe ...

THE use of chemicals around the world is worsening. Artificial substances that are in the nature of chemicals improve products used by consumers but all too often, people and the environment are ...