Earth inhales and exhales carbon, indicating where and when vegetation is growing (sucking up carbon dioxide) or dying off ...

Melting ice from West Antarctica once delivered huge amounts of iron to the Southern Ocean, but algae growth did not increase as expected. Researchers found the iron was in a form that marine life ...

Elon Musk wants to turn one of humanity’s biggest problems into the fuel for its boldest journey. Instead of treating carbon ...

Rewetting wetlands can help lock carbon in the ground, but fully flooding them may backfire by boosting methane emissions.

New research shows that even healthy tropical peat forests can release more warming gases due to water level changes and ...

Sixty-six million years ago, Earth was a tropical greenhouse. Today, it's an ice-capped world. And an international team of experts led by the University of Southampton think they know why. Their new ...

A Sydney Ph.D. student has recreated a tiny piece of the universe inside a bottle in her laboratory, producing cosmic dust ...

For more than a quarter billion years, coral reefs did far more than brighten shallow seas. Long before humans appeared, ...

NASA scientists unearthed a new exoplanet, dubbed the 'cold Earth,' from retired Kepler telescope data. This Earth-sized world, HD 137010 b, orbits a distant star and, despite frigid temperatures, may ...

The planet is one of the best worlds for follow-up studies to determine whether it could be habitable or not.

A reconstruction of temperature in Colombia during the Pliocene, when CO2 levels were similar to today, suggests that parts of the tropics might soon experience more dramatic warming than previously ...

Earth’s core exerts a gravitational pull that attracts these molecules towards the center of the planet. Even though earth travels at 1,07,000 kmph around the sun, the atmosphere is trapped inside ...