If Earth's history were a calendar year, humans would not appear until the last few minutes before midnight on Dec. 31.

Billions of tonnes of carbon are constantly moving through the atmosphere, land and oceans. The ocean carbon cycle is a set of vital processes that helps regulate the Earth’s climate and support ...

The principles of chemical oceanography provide insight into the processes regulating the marine carbon cycle. The text offers a background in chemical oceanography and a description of how chemical ...

The emergence of life on our planet added a new layer to the carbon cycle. As plants grow, they take CO 2 out of the atmosphere, and when they die, it is released again. Animals that consume the ...

The carbon cycle orchestrates the exchange of carbon among the atmosphere, oceans, soil and living organisms, playing a crucial role in regulating Earth’s climate and maintaining a delicate ...

The U.S. Department of Energy estimates that reaching its climate-policy energy goals will rely on capturing and storing ...

A new study, led by planetary scientists at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, revealed that methane gas may also be trapped ...

And our water cycle, just like our carbon cycle, is wildly out of balance ... no matter who is in office." On the Venn diagram she encourages people to make to determine their climate action ...

On a cold, ancient Mars, rivers flowed and a lake the size of the Mediterranean Sea swelled under the protection of thick ice ...

Research on Titan has uncovered a significant layer of methane clathrate ice that explains its shallow craters and warm interior. This discovery offers new insights into Titan's methane-rich ...

Diatoms are too small to see with the naked eye, yet they are one of the most productive algae species in the ocean and play an important role in the global carbon cycle. Using photosynthesis ...