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 ...

On the edge of the Mojave Desert, 60 miles north of Los Angeles, a new water treatment plant will turn wastewater into drinking water. The plant will also test something new: removing CO2 from the ...

There’s little good news to report in the field of research surrounding climate change and its far-reaching impacts on the planet, yet an international team of scientists may have found a small ...

For decades, climate policy has leaned on a comforting assumption: that as humans emit more carbon dioxide, plants will respond by growing faster and locking away a large share of that pollution. A ...

Sept 4 - Carbon dioxide helps plants grow but it can also worsen conditions for plant growth, contrary to a graphic shared on social media that misleadingly suggests higher CO2 in Earth’s atmosphere ...

A Dec. 29, 2022, Facebook post (direct link, archive link) features a photosynthesis diagram, with a plant using light and carbon dioxide to produce oxygen and carbohydrates. "Remember science," reads ...

An Aug. 15 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows side-by-side images of a man standing next to a series of plants. The signs list higher numbers alongside larger plants. "The fertilizer ...

New research shows that early land plants started influencing Earth’s climate hundreds of millions of years earlier than ...

For years, scientists have seen enhanced photosynthesis as one of the only possible bright sides of increasing levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) -- since plants use carbon dioxide for ...