In the whole history of Earth's climate, few events are as extreme as those that geologists call "Snowball Earth." ...

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Spreading crushed rock on farms could remove gigatons of carbon - but only if the method spreads widely, especially in warm, wet regions.

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Our current climate catastrophe is far from Earth’s first, but for billions of years life has continued to plod along through these ups and downs. MIT scientists have now analyzed 66 million years of ...

A study published in Nature Geoscience reports new findings on the effects that erosion has on the carbon cycle. The study comes from a group of researchers led by Aaron Bufe and Niels Hovius of the ...

Earth’s oxygen-rich atmosphere, the very thing that allows complex life to exist, may not last forever. Coupled biogeochemistry and climate simulations estimate that the planet’s breathable air could ...

May 5 (UPI) --New research shows mineral weathering during hothouse conditions helped life on Earth rebound in the wake of one of the "big five" mass extinctions some 200 million years ago. The ...

Bedrock of Earth got severely beaten up by hothouse climate conditions during one of planet’s mass extinctions some 200 million years ago. But the process also allowed life to bounce back. Bedrock of ...