This meant that the “geological carbon cycle” would be a thermostat that regulated the Earth’s temperature. During chemical weathering, rocks could then suck up CO2 when some minerals were ...

Since physical and chemical erosion yield comparable carbon fluxes, studying both together is essential to avoid biases in erosion-driven carbon flux estimates.

Strange, tiny structures have been found in the rocks around the deserts of southern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.

Most of my work has focused on the last full glacial-interglacial cycle, spanning roughly the past 150,000 years ... The oceans also exert control over atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide, an ...

An international team of scientists has synchronized key climate records from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to unravel the sequence of events during the last million years before the extinction of ...

The emergence of life on our planet added a new layer to the carbon cycle. As plants grow ... releasing vast amounts of CO 2 in a geological blink of an eye. Estimates show that by burning these ...

Researchers used modelling and plant fossils to follow the planet's transition to 10 degrees of warming, which eradicated ...

The hard rocks all around us are sponges for carbon dioxide ... is this natural cycle takes millennia. Kanan’s idea is to take a process that normally operates on geologic time — and speed ...