Where would carbon-based life be without carbon? There are 118 known chemical elements, but carbon is the fourth most abundant and perhaps the most important to human life. Everywhere you look, ...

A new study by researchers at Bar-Ilan University has uncovered that certain ocean viruses—specifically RNA viruses—may ...

Researchers from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Columbia University, along with their collaborators, have analyzed sediments from the ...

The destruction of tropical rainforests — seen in shocking images of huge wildfires, vast clearcuts, and dying ...

A new study reveals that humans were extensively using fire to modify landscapes as far back as 50,000 years ago. That’s at ...

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

However, the Martian story also serves as a stark warning. Earth’s long-term carbon cycle has maintained habitable temperatures for billions of years. Yet, Mars’s fate demonstrates the extreme ...

The ecosystems on the American Southwest’s federal lands are hemorrhaging carbon dioxide into the atmosphere faster than any other region in the U.S., according to a recent study from the U.S ...