Considered natural allies against climate change due to their absorption of carbon dioxide, plants may however offer more limited help than expected. The cause: an essential ...

For many years, scientists believed rising CO₂ levels would help Earth’s plants significantly slow climate change. As carbon ...

The use of extra carbon dioxide (CO2) in commercial greenhouses to aid plant growth is being touted online to falsely imply climate-change warnings are a “scam”. Experts say while CO2 can help some ...

Groundbreaking model experiment led by Dr. Amiran Khabidovich Zanilov at Kabardino-Balkarian State University reveals how light, fertilizer, and CO₂ levels shape plant carbon nutrition—challenging ...

A new leaf imaging system lets scientists watch plant stomata control water loss and carbon uptake in real time.

Earth’s plants aren’t holding onto carbon as long as we thought. A new analysis of pulses of radioactive carbon-14 from 20th-century bomb tests reveals that plants stock more carbon in short-lived ...

COLORADO, USA — The goal of the U.S. government is to reach net-zero carbon dioxide emissions by the year 2050. That will mean removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and finding ways to store at ...