Scientists found that thawing permafrost can trigger increased rock weathering, a natural process that absorbs CO2 from the ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 7, 2007 — Researchers at Harvard University and Pennsylvania State University have invented a technology, inspired by nature, to reduce the accumulation of atmospheric carbon ...

The towering peaks of the Southern Andes are not just shaping the skyline of South America—they are also quietly influencing Earth's atmosphere. Chemical weathering, the process at the heart of this ...

Rivers integrate chemical weathering across diverse rock types, climates and land uses, conveying dissolved solutes from catchments to the ocean. The dissolution of silicate minerals consumes ...

Could blending of crushed rock with arable soil lower global temperatures? Researchers study global warming events from 40 and 56 million years ago to find answers. The Earth is getting hotter and ...

A new study published in Nature shows that rock weathering increasingly counteracts river CO2 emissions as permafrost ...

In nature, nanocrystals form primarily through geological processes, such as chemical weathering of rocks and minerals. However, artificial systems that mechanistically parallel geological nanocrystal ...

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Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. Reverse weathering is one of the ocean's most important yet least understood geochemical processes. During this natural process, ...

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Throughout most of Earth's geological history, its paleoclimate has remained hospitable to life—largely thanks to continental silicate weathering, which acts as a long-term planetary thermostat. A ...

The Earth is getting hotter and consequences have been made manifest this summer around the world. Looking back in geological history, global warming events are not uncommon: Around 56 million years ...