For over half a billion years, Earth’s magnetic field has risen and fallen in sync with oxygen levels in the atmosphere, and scientists are finally uncovering why. A NASA-led study reveals a striking ...

Models suggest that human-caused global warming would have been detectable in the 19th century with today's know-how.

The cover photo, taken at the Strait of Malacca in Malaysia, captures the Tyndall effect as sunlight filters through the clouds over the tropical Pacific. The interplay of light and shadow ...

But as John Tyndall and many scientists since him have explained, by burning fossil fuels we gradually enhance the existing greenhouse effect of the atmosphere-although, if the atmosphere ...

An aspiring prime minister whose centrepiece mantra is to axe Canada’s carbon tax would be advised to pause for a couple of basic lessons in history and atmospheric physics. In the mid-19th century, ...

Carbon dioxide’s powerful heat-trapping effect has been traced to a quirk of its quantum structure. The finding may explain climate change better than any computer model.

Tyndall identified that water vapour and certain gases trapped heat in the atmosphere. By the mid-20th century, scientists including Charles David Keeling began systematic measurements of ...

THE phenomenon mentioned by Prof. Tyndall as recently occurring at the Bel Alp is not infrequent at the coast. At Folkestone in the month of June last, we saw several more or less striking instances.

In 1896, the Swedish physicist Svante Arrhenius realized that carbon dioxide (CO 2) traps heat in Earth’s atmosphere — the phenomenon now called the greenhouse effect.Since then, increasingly ...

In 1856, a woman named Eunice Newton Foote became the first person to demonstrate the greenhouse gas effect, a foundational discovery in the understanding of climate science. Despite her ...