Soils store more carbon than the atmosphere and vegetation combined, with soil microorganisms playing the main role. As a ...

Our planet has experienced dramatic climate shifts throughout its history, oscillating between freezing "icehouse" periods ...

Carbon released from Earth's spreading tectonic plates, not volcanoes, may have triggered major transitions between ancient ...

Researchers have uncovered surprising evidence that the deep ocean’s carbon-fixing engine works very differently than long assumed. While ammonia-oxidizing archaea were thought to dominate carbon ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising mechanism that may explain how Earth cooled dramatically after the age of dinosaurs.

TOWAMENSING TWP., Pa. -- There was a two-vehicle crash involving an SUV and a Pennsylvania State Police vehicle on Route 209 in Towamensing Township, Carbon County. The call came in slightly before 11 ...

New research challenges conventional wisdom by demonstrating that mid-ocean ridges and continental rifts, not volcanic ...