The government is planning to make possession of nitrous oxide - also known as laughing gas - a criminal offence in England and Wales. Known as NOS, its use as a recreational drug soared during ...

Possession of nitrous oxide, also known as NOS, has become a criminal offence in the UK. Now categorised as a class C drug, possession of laughing gas for its "psychoactive effects" will carry a ...

Experts say limiting the release of nitrous oxide is crucial for keeping warming below the critical 1.5°C threshold of the ...

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 ...

Although the Montreal Protocol has provided relief, anthropogenic emissions of another substance, nitrous oxide, are set to dominate ozone destruction. Figure 1: Influence of greenhouse-gas ...