The resulting graph, called the Keeling Curve (after Charles David Keeling, the scientist who kicked off the effort) is a ...

Carbon dioxide may be a naturally occurring substance on Earth, but too much of its presence has contributed to global ...

Charles David Keeling first documented how the gas buildup in the atmosphere contributes to the warming planet. His son says proposed cuts to NOAA threaten critical scientific research.

This story originally appeared on the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. There are trillions upon trillions of numbers in the world. We use numbers to ...

Climate-warming carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere grew at a record-breaking speed in 2024, surging by 3.7 parts per million, a recent NOAA data analysis has found. It’s one of the ...

This graph shows the annual mean growth rates of carbon dioxide, with decadal averages ... since measurements started in the 1950s. Credit: NOAA Others include the 2023-2024 spike of the global ...

“Firing people like me will make it incredibly hard for NOAA Fisheries ... carbon dioxide measurements. The research station supplies the data behind the Keeling Curve, a graph that shows ...

The data collected there helped to create the Keeling Curve, a famous upward-sweeping graph that documents the steep rise in carbon dioxide (CO2 ... Administration (NOAA), the United States ...

NOAA, the nation’s leading climate ... a famous upward-sweeping graph that documents the steep rise in carbon dioxide concentrations over decades. “These data are our eyes on the planet ...

NOAA staff declined to comment publicly ... to establish the famed Keeling Curve — a graph showing the accumulation of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere from 1958 up to the present ...