NOAA data and models help scientists track the global carbon cycle Greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels are projected to reach a record 36.8 billion […]
Record carbon dioxide emissions impeding progress on meeting climate goals Read More >
The Annual Greenhouse Gas Index is a measure of the climate-warming influence of long-lived trace greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and how that influence has changed since the onset of the industrial revolution.
NOAA index tracks how greenhouse gas pollution amplified global warming in 2022 Read More >
More than 50 years after NOAA commissioned the first Arctic atmospheric observatory in a temporary building at the northernmost point of the United States, NOAA
NOAA celebrates new Arctic observatory near Utqiaġvik Read More >
An eight-year study of Boston’s natural gas system has revealed that emissions of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, are significantly higher than previously estimated. An
Urban areas across the U.S. are undercounting methane emissions, a new study shows Read More >
Marine cloud brightening, a geoengineering approach to cooling the surface of the Earth by increasing the reflectivity of marine clouds, may be more difficult to execute than anticipated, according to a new NOAA study.
This solar geoengineering idea has a Goldilocks problem Read More >
Scientists with NOAA's Global Monitoring Laboratory will evaluate the optimal placement of greenhouse-gas sampling inlets on a Boeing 737 flying testbed owned by Alaska Air during Boeing's 2021 ecoDemonstrator technology development program.
NOAA, Boeing team up to test greenhouse gas-measuring technology Read More >
The annual analysis of samples collected by NOAA’s Global Greenhouse Gas Reference Network provides an updated measure of the excess heat trapped in the atmosphere by greenhouse gas pollution.
NOAA index tracks how greenhouse gas pollution amplified global warming in 2020 Read More >
NOAA and NIST have installed a Doppler lidar instrument to an existing weather station on top of the Department of Commerce’s Herbert Clark Hoover Building in Washington, D.C. to measure wind flow and turbulence in the lowest part of the atmosphere for a research project studying greenhouse gas emissions in the Capitol area.
Commerce building now part of NOAA, NIST weather and greenhouse gas tracking network Read More >
Researchers from NOAA and the University of Colorado Boulder have devised a breakthrough method for estimating national emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels using ambient air samples and a well-known isotope of carbon that scientists have relied on for decades to date archaeological sites.
Tracking fossil fuel emissions with carbon-14 Read More >
Monthly average surpassed 414 parts per million at Mauna Loa observatory Atmospheric carbon dioxide continued its rapid rise in 2019, with the average for May
Carbon dioxide levels hit record peak in May Read More >
