Australia's first large underground carbon storage facility has opened in the southern state of Victoria. The geo-sequestration plant will capture carbon dioxide from a power station and store it two kilometers beneath the surface. Researchers think the pilot program will help Australia make deep cuts to its greenhouse gas emissions.

Unlike carbon dioxide and methane, laughing gas has been largely ignored by world leaders as a worrying greenhouse gas. But nitrous oxide must be taken more seriously, says Professor David Richardson from the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK, speaking today (Monday 31 March 2008) at the Society for General Microbiology’s 162nd meeting being held this week at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre.

European Union leaders have backed ambitious goals to fight climate change but stressed that they must be affordable at a time of economic downturn.

EU leaders met in Brussels on Thursday and Friday to define a joint solution on how to cut greenhouse gases whilst protecting individual countries’ industries.

The growth in China's carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions is far outpacing previous estimates, making the goal of stabilizing atmospheric greenhouse gases much more difficult, according to a new analysis by economists at the University of California, Berkeley, and UC San Diego.

Scientists will embark this week from Punta Arenas, Chile, on the tip of South America, to spend 42 days amid the high winds and waves of the Southern Ocean. Here they hope to make groundbreaking measurements to explain how huge fluxes of climate-affecting gases move between atmosphere and sea, and vice-versa.

Swedish agriculture authorities are warning that Swedish farmers ploughing up fields which were earlier bogs or sea beds are releasing large amounts of greenhouse gases into the environment - without even knowing it.

If carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels continue on a "business-as-usual" trajectory, humans will have added about 5 trillion metric tons of carbon to the atmosphere by the year 2400. A similarly massive release of carbon accompanied an extreme period of global warming 55 million years ago known as the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM).

By 2100, warmer oceans with more carbon dioxide may no longer sustain 1 of the world's most productive fisheries, says USC marine ecologist
The last fish you ate probably came from the Bering Sea.

How a changing climate can affect ecosystems is an important and timely question, especially considering the recent global rise in greenhouse gases.

US President George W Bush has said that nuclear power represents the "best solution" to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while meeting growing energy needs.

IBM (NYSE: IBM), Enterprise Information Management, Inc. (EIM), and Evergreen Energy Inc. (NYSE: EEE) today announced a greenhouse gas meter called GreenCert developed on IBM Websphere Portal-based software, which can calculate carbon reductions across multiple industries and devices.