Planting trees has long been touted as a major tool in the fight against climate change. And on the surface, that makes a lot ...

It's well-known that trees absorb carbon dioxide from the air to create their structure's organic building blocks. Some trees ...

Also, the metal oxides encasing the carbon are among the first to solidify as the molten volcanic rock cools. That means the carbon clusters form when temperatures are around 1300 to 1400°C—far ...

Stashing Carbon Dioxide In Rocks Basalt formations off the East Coast of the U.S. could suck up a billion tons of carbon dioxide, according to a new study. Paleontologist Paul Olsen, of Columbia ...

Sedimentary rocks on the banks of the Mackenzie River, Canada, a major river basin where rock weathering is a CO2 source. Image credit: Robert Hilton. Rocks contain an enormous store of carbon in ...

The carbon in those samples, however, told a different story. Very quickly, the amount of carbon (and carbon-14) fell to less than 5 percent of what would be expected if all the CO 2 they injected ...

Researchers in the Department of Geological Sciences and Engineering are exploring how rock erosion contributes to the carbon cycle by studying shale in the mountains of southern California. But as ...

Storing carbon inn rocks underground: Old oil fields may be less prone to induced earthquakes. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2021 / 06 / 210628170531.htm ...

By discovering carbonate rocks, NASA's Mars rovers may have unlocked the key to understanding the fate of the Red Planet's ...

“Past studies on rock weathering have measured how the weathering process affects carbon capture, but they’ve overlooked the production of other greenhouse gases,” says Qiang Zeng, an author ...

But this form of carbon capture, called Enhanced Rock Weathering (or ERW for short), still requires innovation — and government oversight.