A coal fired power station like this one in Poland are major sources of CO2 The build-up of warming gases in the atmosphere rose to record levels in 2020 despite the pandemic, according to the ...

This image of our planet is the closest we get to a real-time view of how carbon dioxide builds up in our atmosphere. Jan. 1 CO2 emitted by: Fossil fuels Fire Land Ocean Loading data ...

Natural sinks of carbon are unable to keep up with this rate of change. This causes CO 2 to build up in the atmosphere, which rose from a concentration of around 280 parts per million (ppm) in 1750 to ...

Our planet is surrounded by an invisible shell of air, called the atmosphere, held in place by the Earth’s gravitational field. It’s made up of a mixture of different gases. About 78% of the ...

A team led by researchers at the University of Tokyo has created a dataset of the whole atmosphere, enabling new research to ...