Learn how the carbon cycle works and how greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane disrupt it, shaping climate change ...

Deep carbon refers to the carbon found beneath the subsurface of the Earth, where ninety percent of the Earth’s carbon resides. This vital part of the carbon cycle impacts the oceans, atmosphere and ...

In the midst of the COVID pandemic, scientists embarked on an ambitious research expedition to the North Atlantic to investigate the inner workings of the ocean’s carbon cycle. A series of storms ...

Researchers at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography have created a more accurate model of global carbon cycling. The model better accounts for the contributions of Earth’s terrestrial ...

A team of researchers has used computer models to simulate tropical cyclones at high resolutions and investigate their effect on the carbon exchange between the ocean and the atmosphere. Their results ...

Is the world’s largest rainforest about to turn into a net carbon emitter? New research suggests that the Amazon is entering into a “hypertropical” state a climate regime hotter and drier than ...

The dynamics of soil organic carbon (SOC) play a critical role in the global carbon cycle. In context of global warming, ...

Until a few hundred years ago there was a perfect balance of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere. But since the Industrial Revolution the carbon cycle has been thrown out of kilter. The drastic ...

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, ...

Scientists have uncovered new details explaining why iron oxide minerals are such effective long-term carbon traps in soils.

Black carbon is one of the main components of soot, smoke, and smog. It's what's left behind from the incomplete burning of organic materials like firewood or fossil fuels. In the right place, it's an ...