The Orbiting Carbon Observatory is an incredible new tool in the global effort to understand climate change that will fill in the gaps left by ground measuring stations in parts of North America, Europe and Asia. The new satellite mission dovetails with a newly-announced plan by Virgin Galactic an...
Scientists who want to measure the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide have run into an accountant's worst nightmare: They know how much carbon dioxide we're producing, but they don't know where it's all going. Those scientists' hopes for finding the missing carbon dioxide were dashed when the Jet Prop...