Seaweeds are versatile algae. They are sources of food, medicine, and many other products, and they have the added benefit of ...

Achieving net zero means eliminating fossil fuels, not carbon — the chemical element has a crucial part to play in powering ...

The world’s oceans are becoming dangerously acidic. A controversial proposal would raise the pH — by mixing chemicals into ...

The ocean has long acted as a stabilizing force in the climate system, quietly drawing carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere ...

Planar tetracoordinate carbon species subvert the long‐standing paradigm of tetrahedral carbon geometry, demonstrating that a carbon atom can be stabilised in a planar configuration with four ...

Scientists have uncovered new details explaining why iron oxide minerals are such effective long-term carbon traps in soils.

In labs focused on clean energy, a quiet shift is underway. Instead of treating carbon dioxide as a dead-end waste gas, ...

Where would carbon-based life be without carbon? There are 118 known chemical elements, but carbon is the fourth most abundant and perhaps the most important to human life. Everywhere you look, ...

Scientists know iron oxide minerals store large amounts of carbon in soils, but lack a detailed, quantitative understanding of the specific chemical mechanisms that allow them to bind such a wide ...

Truncated icosahedron: technical term for a soccer ball in the United States, a football everywhere else. The scientists who vaporized the graphite to produce C 60 named the new carbon allotrope ...

In early October, Xiao Aiguo, a small agribusiness dealer in suburban Suzhou, China, stood outside his shop and lamented the lack of certain pesticides. Because of nationwide power outages throughout ...