The trigger for the Permian–Triassic mass extinction event was the eruption of massive amounts of molten rock in modern day ...

A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally ...

The molten rock was hot enough to melt the surrounding rocks and release massive amounts of carbon dioxide into Earth's ...

Researchers from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Columbia University ...

A startup called Gigablue claims to have reached a milestone by selling 200,000 carbon credits for its ocean-based carbon ...

Steps of the Carbon Cycle . CO2 is removed from the atmosphere by photosynthetic organisms (plants, cyanobacteria, etc.) and used to generate organic molecules and build biological mass.

As Earth's largest carbon reservoir, the ocean locks carbon away from the atmosphere. However, scientists still struggle to ...

Scientists are designing a new living material that captures carbon dioxide directly from the air. It uses photosynthetic ...

The European Space Agency’s satellite will measure trunks, branches and stems in forests to shed light on how much carbon is ...

Power plants and industrial facilities that emit planet-warming carbon dioxide are hopeful that Congress will keep tax ...