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Marine life plays a pivotal role in Earth's carbon cycle. Phytoplankton at the base of the aquatic food web take up carbon ...
Paul Hawken’s Carbon is about a decade in the making. Perhaps the book’s long gestation is why it feels so familiar, Other ...
Carbon offers a new way of thinking about planetary crisis, its causes, and solutions. By encouraging us to recover our wild ...
New research on the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum used probabilistic analysis to learn more about its duration and how long modern warming could affect the carbon cycle.
Analysis from the Curiosity rover provides powerful evidence that Mars once maintained a robust carbon cycle. This discovery opens new possibilities about whether life could have thrived there ...
When drilling into rocks on Mount Sharp, the central peak of the Red Planet's Gale Crater, the rover found evidence of siderite, an iron carbonate whose presence suggests Mars once had a carbon cycle.
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 ...
“Considering plastic as part of a carbon cycle in a river . . . as a part of the ecosystem and part of the carbon cycle is a step past thinking about its toxicological effects.” Because ...
and keeping carbon in play once it enters the cycle, ideally resulting in multiple uses of each carbon atom. Single-use carbon can no longer be widespread, the roadmap authors assert. The carbon ...
Within the eight-year AR6 cycle, the IPCC also published three special reports – on 1.5C of global warming in 2018, then, successively in 2019, on climate change and land, and the ocean and cryosphere ...
Moreover, whale excrement fertilizes the ocean, producing large phytoplankton blooms which extract atmospheric carbon. These microscopic beings contribute at least 50 percent of all the oxygen in ...