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.

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.

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.

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

Engineers have had to come up with some interesting ways to generate oxygen for astronauts in the vacuum of space.

In fact, air quality in the US in general has suffered in recent years.

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.

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 ...

Air-purifying respirators are self-contained devices, which remove contaminants from the air to make it safe to breathe. Different kinds can remove particulates, vapors or both.

Q&A: Rob Jackson’s vision: Fixing the air we breathe Stanford professor offers a hopeful and attainable strategy for reducing greenhouse gases to pre-industrial levels ...

We think of oxygen as life, sustenance, a literal breath of fresh air. But it's actually a very reactive element. Anyone who's burned a log has witnessed this firsthand. So why do so many life ...

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.