In this way, they have a cooling effect on the planet – quite the opposite of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane. Overall, the efforts to cut down on sulfur emissions have been ...

Reducing sulfur in the air may inadvertently increase natural emissions of methane from wetlands such as peatlands and swamps ...

Cleaner air's impact requires a steeper reduction in human-emitted methane to meet global targets. A new study reveals that ...

We know that greenhouse gas emissions like ... in rain has been largely offset by the drying effect of aerosols—emissions like sulfur dioxide that are produced by burning fossil fuels, and ...

But when applied to the whole planet, the greenhouse effect is bad news. We call the compounds in the atmosphere that trap Earth’s heat, such as carbon dioxide and methane, greenhouse gases.

Carbon dioxide (CO 2) is a greenhouse gas. This means that it causes an effect like the glass in a greenhouse, trapping heat and warming up the inside. This effect is important: without the CO 2 that ...

Scientists have largely attributed this temperature rise to the increase of greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide ... the effects of events like the January 2022 Tonga volcanic eruption, which ...