Climate change speeds up destruction of key greenhouse gas
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 06, 2026
Scientists at the University of California, Irvine report that human driven climate change is causing nitrous oxide, a major greenhouse gas and ozone depleting substance, to break down in the atmosphere more quickly than previously estimated. Using two decades of data from NASA’s Microwave Limb Sounder, they find that the atmospheric lifetime of nitrous oxide is shortening at a rate that introdu
Published by SpaceDaily on 02/10/2026