Soil stores more carbon than Earth's atmosphere and plants combined, which makes the speed of soil carbon's decomposition an important variable in models used to predict changes to our climate.

A new study in the journal Science suggests rivers in the arid American West may be doing something unexpected: absorbing ...

Microbes frozen for 40,000 years in Alaska's permafrost are thawing as temperatures rise, releasing CO2 and posing new ...

Particles of space dust may be vital in increasing the building blocks required for life, scientists leading the first study ...

Scientists from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, collaborating with teams from Germany's Friedrich Schiller University Jena ...

Minerals from a cave in Greenland reveal that the Arctic was warm and had no permafrost, with CO₂ levels similar to today's.

Researchers from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh are working alongside teams from Germany and the USA in the first study ...

Common moss spores survived nine months bolted to the outside of the International Space Station, paving the way toward space ...

The waters bordering North America could soon be inhospitable to critical marine creatures if the Northeastern Pacific Ocean continues to acidify at the current rate, a new study shows. Earth’s oceans ...

We expel carbon dioxide as waste. Naked mole rats bathe their brains in it to prevent seizures. The unique animals thrive ...

As global efforts intensify around restoring coastal wetlands to curb climate change, a new JCU-led study published in ...

Second on the podium is the Borrowdale Volcanic Group in the Lake District of England. Taking the bronze is the Skye Lava ...