U.S. efforts to put carbon dioxide from power plants and industrial facilities underground where they won't contribute to ...

Biochar, a charcoal-like material derived from plant biomass, has long been hailed as a promising tool for carbon dioxide ...

A study from the U.S. Geological Survey found the ecosystems on California's public lands are losing the carbon they've locked up from the atmosphere faster than any other state, driven in large part ...

Inspired by how plants produce their food, scientists have developed a system using artificial leaves to create sustainable ...

Researchers have developed a reactor that pulls carbon dioxide directly from the air and converts it into sustainable fuel, ...

While a single plant is capable of fixing inorganic carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air, the entire ecosystem surrounding the plant, including water, other organisms and soil conditions, influences how ...

Explore the surprising shift in Colorado forests as they begin releasing more carbon than they absorb, affecting climate ...

Peat bogs sequester a huge amount of carbon dioxide. But as scientists work to better understand bogs' sequestration, they're under threat.

D espite accounting for around 0.025 percent of all mass on the planet, carbon is vital for life on Earth. This element, ...

Pictured is the Petra Nova carbon capture system at the W.A. Parish Plant in ... at a carbon dioxide injection site in Decatur, Illinois. The operator Archer Daniels Midland found corrosion ...

the USGS study found. The land’s biological processes are generally balanced: Plant growth and decay result in roughly 4 tons of carbon dioxide absorbed per acre every year, while microorganisms ...

A combination of increased microbial activity, thawing permafrost, and more frequent wildfires now means the Arctic is releasing more carbon dioxide than ... these shrubbier plants are crowding ...