Carbon dioxide dissolved in water—including saltwater ... Credit: Chris Barbalis/Unsplash It's thought that carbon is the only element that could be the foundation of a tree of life like ...

A study from the U.S. Geological Survey found the ecosystems on California's public lands are losing the carbon they've ...

Though it's a cold, dead planet, Mars still has its own natural beauty about it. This image shows us something we'll never ...

Materials such as concrete containing carbonate-based aggregates, bio-based plastics and biochar could sequester more than 16 ...

Record heat and rain turned thousands of Greenland lakes brown in 2022 as they hit a tipping point and began emitting carbon dioxide.

The change measured by the Mauna Loa Observatory was likely driven by wildfires and continued burning of fossil fuels, ...

Earth exceeded 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming above preindustrial times, a threshold beyond which wildfires, droughts, floods ...

Scientists recently discovered that the giant 'conveyer belt' currents that push star-forged material out of our galaxy and pull it back in can also transport carbon atoms. That means that a good ...

Billions of tons of carbon are being locked away in the stuff we build, use, and throw out—but it won’t stay trapped forever.

I lead an international team of scientists who have just published research demonstrating, for the first time, that carbon dioxide (CO₂) played a central role in this huge climatic transition.

Life on Earth could not exist without carbon. But carbon itself could not exist without stars. Nearly all elements except hydrogen and helium — including carbon, oxygen and iron — only exist ...