atmospheric carbon
Volcanoes Played Pivotal Role in Ancient Ice Age, Mass Extinction
Perhaps ironically, these volcanoes first caused global warming — by releasing massive amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.When they stopped…
New CO2 data helps unlock the secrets of Antarctic formation
A team of scientists from Cardiff, Bristol and Texas A&M universities braved the lions and hyenas of a small East African village to extract microfossils in…
Ancient global warming episode holds clues to future climate
One of these is deep-sea sediment cores (see Figure). Deep-sea sediments contain fossil remains of tiny marine creatures and other materials that sink to the…
Iron and biological production in the high-latitude North Atlantic
Tiny plant-like organisms called phytoplankton dominate biological production in the sunlit surface waters of the world's oceans and, through the process of…
Home Energy Savings Are Made in the Shade
The first large-scale study of its kind, the research paper considers the effects of shade on 460 single-family homes in Sacramento during the summer of 2007…