The results complicate a widespread belief about the role of plants in helping to draw down—or use—carbon from the atmosphere, providing new insight into how plants could adapt to climate change.

The first thing to know about the atmosphere is that it is composed of the air that we breathe. This air encompasses the planet, and it is held in place by gravity. As a quick reminder, gravity on ...

Oxygen is in the air we breathe here on Earth. Plants and some kinds of bacteria provide it for us. But oxygen is not the only gas in the Earth’s atmosphere. It’s not even the most abundant.

“We find that both exhibit strong linearly increasing trends, coupled with a large surge in magnitude between 330 and 220 ...

OXYGEN may be the breath of life, but it’s not entirely clear how Earth’s atmosphere came to be so full of it. Now it seems that supercontinents and supermountains played a major role in the ...

The results complicate a widespread belief about the role of plants in helping to draw down, or use, carbon from the atmosphere, providing new insight into how plants could adapt to climate change.

Open-circuit types provide breathing air that the wearer breathes right back out to the atmosphere. These are typically good for 30 to 60 minutes because the larger the tank gets, the more ...

Nitrogen comprises around 78% of Earth's atmosphere, so why do most lifeforms breathe oxygen ... "plants get their carbon from CO2 in the air ... Fluorine could certainly provide more ...

That’s what I mean by “restoring the atmosphere.” Restoring methane to preindustrial levels would save 0.5°C of warming and could happen in your lifetime—and mine.