As global temperatures continue to rise, scientists are working to understand how warming affects the planet’s carbon cycle.

A new method to convert waste plastic to fuel and raw materials promises to help close the carbon cycle at mild temperature and with high yield. There's a lot of potentially useful raw materials bound ...

When it comes to diatoms that live in the ocean, new research suggests that photosynthesis is not the only strategy for accumulating carbon. Instead, these single-celled plankton are also building ...

This is the fourth article in a series about the mechanics of the natural carbon cycle. Please also see the overview article — Nature-Enhancing Solutions are the Key to Solving the Climate Crisis — ...

In the midst of the COVID pandemic, scientists embarked on an ambitious research expedition to the North Atlantic to ...

Nearly a third of the CO2 that humans pump into the atmosphere ends up in the ocean. That’s helping slow down climate change—at least for now—but as the water absorbs so much extra carbon dioxide, ...

This image shows a comparison between the synthetic biology–engineered plant (right) and the wild-type plant. Dr. Liao’s team has developed a novel “McG plant” with a mechanism that recycles the ...

Mars has not always been a seemingly lifeless red desert. We have evidence that billions of years ago it had a warm, habitable climate with liquid water in lakes and flowing rivers, which is somewhat ...