New research suggests silage has been overlooked as a substantial producer of nitrous oxide. A team at Kansas State ...

Anthropogenic activities have significantly increased atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and ...

Nitrous oxide behaves in a similar way to chlorofluorocarbons ... most important anthropogenic greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide and methane 4. This is but one of many apparent links between ...

Emissions of nitrous oxide—a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide or methane—continued unabated between 1980 and 2020, a year when more than 10 million metric tons flowed into the atmosphere ...

The government made the possession of nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, a criminal offence in England and Wales, as part of plans to tackle anti-social behaviour. Its use soared during the pandemic ...

The Environmental Protection Agency recently released its annual list of the nation's top air polluters, and Ameren's Labadie ...

The excess nitrous oxide in the atmosphere contributes to rising global temperatures because it is a greenhouse gas, like carbon dioxide and methane. Nitrous oxide also damages the the ozone layer ...

Nitrous oxide accounts for just five percent of current warming. However, the gas is incredibly potent, 273 times worse than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas on a pound for pound basis ...

While carbon dioxide, or CO2, is the best known greenhouse gas, several others, including methane and nitrous oxide, are also ...

Nitrous oxide heats the Earth's atmosphere 300 times more effectively than carbon dioxide, scientists say, and can linger for more than a century. Emissions soared 40 percent in the four decades ...