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 ...
Soils store more carbon than the atmosphere and vegetation combined, with soil microorganisms playing the main role. As a ...
McGill engineering researchers have introduced an open-source model that makes it easier for experts and non-experts alike to evaluate greenhouse gas emissions from U.S. natural gas supply chains and ...
Our planet has experienced dramatic climate shifts throughout its history, oscillating between freezing "icehouse" periods ...
A refined mathematical model is now capable of predicting carbon inputs and outputs for freshwater lakes around the world, according to new research from INSTAAR’s Isabella Oleksy and collaborators.
Soils store more carbon than the atmosphere and vegetation combined, with soil microorganisms playing the main role. As a ...
New research highlights the complex relationship between Earth's tectonic plate movements and climate shifts. Contrary to ...
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 ...
A Peking University research team led by Wang Heyuan and Wang Kai at the Institute for Carbon Neutrality (ICN) used AI models to determine that the global land carbon sink has drastically shrunk due ...
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Plants may be soaking up less CO2 than models assumed

For decades, climate policy has leaned on a comforting assumption: that as humans emit more carbon dioxide, plants will respond by growing faster and locking away a large share of that pollution. A ...