Vegetarians need not worry yet—plants will be on Earth for a long time to come. But not forever. The sun will ultimately ...

Atmospheric CO 2 variations across glacial-interglacial cycles are tightly linked to oceanic and terrestrial carbon reservoirs, but the contribution of weathering remains poorly constrained. Using a ...

Scientists found that thawing permafrost can trigger increased rock weathering, a natural process that absorbs CO2 from the ...

New research published in PNAS suggests that not as much carbon dioxide is being removed from the atmosphere by way of the weathering of rocks as was previously thought. The news comes from scientists ...

A new study reveals that implementing enhanced weathering (EW), the practice of adding crushed basalt to soils, with U.S. agriculture could remove between 160 and 300 million metric tons of carbon ...

In a surprising twist to our understanding of Earth's future, new research suggests that plant life could thrive on our ...

Scientists have come up with a model to better understand how weathering, the process that acts as Earth's thermostat, responds to changing global temperatures. Rocks, rain and carbon dioxide help ...

For many hundreds of millions of years, the average temperature at the surface of the Earth has varied by not much more than 20° Celsius, facilitating life on our planet. To maintain such stable ...

The surface of Mars is desiccated, cold, and oxidized today. However, ancient parts of the crust contain hundreds of channel networks and dry lakes that must have formed in a warmer and wetter climate ...