Scientists have uncovered new details explaining why iron oxide minerals are such effective long-term carbon traps in soils.

Research published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society demonstrates a new way to make carbon-based battery ...

In these markets, carbon credits are purchased and traded to compensate for greenhouse gas emissions Greg Daugherty has worked 25+ years as an editor and writer for major publications and websites. He ...

From mixed charges to chemical bonding, Professor Ludmilla Aristilde found that iron uses multiple strategies to lock carbon ...

It Sits on a Vast Haul of Mineral Wealth. Now This Arctic City Must Be Moved. I left the U.S. for China - here's how much it costs Jennifer Lawrence was 'at peace' with never returning to Hollywood ...

This image shows a comparison between the synthetic biology–engineered plant (right) and the wild-type plant. Dr. Liao’s team has developed a novel “McG plant” with a mechanism that recycles the ...

A carbon sink is any natural system that absorbs and stores more carbon from the atmosphere than it releases. The largest carbon sinks on Earth are forests, soil, and the ocean, with the latter ...

Mars has not always been a seemingly lifeless red desert. We have evidence that billions of years ago it had a warm, habitable climate with liquid water in lakes and flowing rivers, which is somewhat ...

Samples drilled by the Curiosity rover on Mars have revealed abundant signs of a carbon cycle that remained hidden from orbital scans, alongside clues of how life may have been wiped out on the planet ...

This Collection presents a series of datasets for the terrestrial carbon cycle. Such datasets are crucial for understanding how carbon moves through land ecosystems, influencing climate change and ...

Where would carbon-based life be without carbon? There are 118 known chemical elements, but carbon is the fourth most abundant and perhaps the most important to human life. Everywhere you look, ...