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The composition of fossilised zooplankton shells has enabled the reconstruction of past pH and CO2. Credit: University of Southampton

By 2025, carbon dioxide levels in Earth’s atmosphere will be higher...

July 11, 2020

Natural magnesite crystal (4 microns wide).

Faster way to make mineral to remove carbon dioxide from atmosphere

August 16, 2018

A 3D computer model of the asthenosphere by Rice University geophysicists finds that the convective cycling and pressure-driven flow can sometimes cause the asthenosphere to move even faster than the tectonic plates riding atop it.

Flow in the asthenosphere drags tectonic plates along

May 29, 2018

Localization and geometry of the "Unit 2" corresponding to the sediment body originated by the Zanclean mega flood.

Scientists find new evidences of the megaflood that ended the Messinian...

April 24, 2018

Mountain erosion may add CO2 to the atmosphere

April 14, 2018

New source of global nitrogen discovered

April 6, 2018

A sample of 2-billion-year-old salt (pink-white recrystallized halite) with embedded fragments of calcium sulfate from a geological drill core in Russian Karelia.

Two-billion-year-old salt rock reveals rise of oxygen in ancient atmosphere

March 24, 2018

Primordial oceans had oxygen 250 million years before the atmosphere

January 25, 2018

Rock layers in the Pongola Basin, South Africa.

World’s oldest known oxygen oasis discovered

January 19, 2018

pillow basalts from undersea volcanic eruptions,

Which came first: Complex life or high atmospheric oxygen?

January 3, 2018

Formation of coal almost turned our planet into a snowball

October 11, 2017

Changes in Earth’s crust caused oxygen to fill the atmosphere

September 20, 2017

Early Earth had a hazy, methane-filled atmosphere

March 14, 2017

Study opens new questions on how the atmosphere and oceans formed

March 1, 2017

Fossil fuel formation: Key to atmosphere’s oxygen?

December 31, 2016

Earth’s ‘technosphere’ now weighs 30 trillion tons

December 2, 2016

Scientists probe underground depths of Earth’s carbon cycle

November 9, 2016

Pollution emitted near equator has biggest impact on global ozone

November 7, 2016

Megadrought risks in southwest U.S. soar as atmosphere warms

October 10, 2016

Ice cores reveal a slow decline in atmospheric oxygen over the...

October 3, 2016

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Some signs of induced seismicity spotted in Salton Trough’s geothermal production fields

August 25, 2016

How Productive are the Ore Factories in the Deep Sea?

April 26, 2014

Ice Age hunters destroyed forests throughout Europe