Concentration of dinitrogen oxide - also referred to as nitrous oxide - in the atmosphere increases strongly and speeds up climate change. In addition to CO2 and methane, it is the third important ...

Plant growth is supported by millions of tiny soil microbes competing and cooperating with each other as they perform important roles at the plant root, including improving access to nutrients and ...

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 ...

In October 2019, I set sail with a team of scientists aboard the Canadian Coast Guard Vessel John P. Tully in the northeast Pacific Ocean, off the coast of Vancouver Island. Battling rough seas and ...

US deaths related to poisoning from the inhalant drug nitrous oxide, also known as laughing gas or whippets, increased from 23 in 2010 to 156 in 2023 in a new study. Although mortality rates plateaued ...

Across the United States, nitrous oxide (N2O), also known as laughing gas or nitrous, continues to be sold in convenience stores, gas stations and other easy-to-access locations with limited national ...

Nitrous oxide deaths in the United States spiked by more than 500% between 2010 and 2023, a new study's findings in JAMA Network Open indicate. In September 2024, CNN reported that misuse of laughing ...

Three and a half tonnes of nitrous oxide canisters were collected at Notting Hill carnival in London this year. According to the Crime Survey for England and Wales, nitrous oxide (also known as nos, ...

Michiganders are inreasingly showing up in hospital ERs, calling 911 or the state poison center after using nitrous oxide.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Every party needs balloons. These just happen to be filled with laughing gas. “We don’t do it that often. It’s funny for about 30 seconds,” said a ...