A new physiological review in Intensive Care Medicine explains why shunt drives hypoxaemia, dead space drives carbon dioxide ...

Medically reviewed by Sanja Jelic, MD Key Takeaways Hypercapnia happens when you have too much carbon dioxide (CO2) in your ...

Methods to enhance the ocean's uptake of carbon dioxide (CO₂) are being explored to help tackle the climate crisis. However, some of these approaches could significantly exacerbate ocean deoxygenation ...

Thanks to plant photosynthesis and its byproducts, we can breathe in oxygen around us and stay alive. But before the dawn of plants, scientists thought Earth’s oxygen originated from a multistep ...

To mitigate global climate change, emissions of the primary culprit, carbon dioxide, must be drastically reduced. A newly developed process helps solve this problem: CO2 is directly split ...

New research from the University of California, Davis, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Texas A&M University reveals that massive emissions, or burps, of carbon dioxide from natural earth systems ...

A study led by biomedical scientist Erica Heinrich at the University of California, Riverside, highlights a critical gap in how clinicians detect and treat breathing distress (dyspnea), particularly ...

A research team has found that molten rock can carry more oxygen than its chemical composition would seem to allow. Their ...