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

And now, in a triumph of cross-border collaboration, an international team, armed with a rich Chinese fossil record and ...

The catastrophic event, which occurred 252 million years ago, wiped out nearly 90 per cent of all life on Earth, both on land ...

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

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

The collapse of tropical forests during Earth's most catastrophic extinction event was the primary cause of the prolonged ...

For a decade, scientists have believed that plants sensed temperature mainly through specialized proteins, and mainly at ...

Research shows rivers release ancient carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, uncovering a greater role for plants and soil in the carbon cycle Peer-Reviewed Publication University of Bristol ...

California’s carbon picture varies widely from year to year. Drought can slow plant growth. Logging and development projects are at the whim of market pressures and politics. Fire seasons are ...

Plants the world over are absorbing about 31% more carbon dioxide than previously thought, according to a new assessment developed by scientists. The research, detailed in the journal Nature, is ...

“The carbon going [into plants] now is not going to be there as long as we thought,” Graven says. And that, she says, reemphasizes how important it is to limit fossil fuel emissions.

The natural process of rock weathering could be emitting as much carbon dioxide (CO 2) into the air as the world’s volcanoes. A study published October 4 in the journal Nature finds that natural ...