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

A soil-dwelling microbe has shown a surprising ability to trap carbon dioxide and turn it into rock. Scientists have ...

Some species of fig trees store calcium carbonate in their trunks—essentially turning themselves (partially) into stone, new ...

Learn about the ability of some fig trees to store atmospheric carbon dioxide and turn it into stone, a process that could ...

We all know that trees are an important part of our climate efforts. But we usually envision this as lush forests soaking up ...

Scientists discovered that fig trees in Kenya can store carbon dioxide as calcium carbonate rocks inside their trunks and ...

Kenyan fig trees can literally turn parts of themselves to stone, using microbes to convert internal crystals into limestone-like deposits that lock away carbon, sweeten surrounding soils, and still ...

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Some carbon dioxide absorbed by fig trees gets turned into calcium carbonate within the wood and the surrounding soil, ...

Nature packs away carbon in chalk, shells and rocks made by marine organisms that crystallize calcium carbonate. Now, research suggests that the soft, organic scaffolds in which such crystals form ...

Calcite, that's calcium-carbonate, crystals with a mass of forty tons were mined in the Harding Mine, Taos County, New Mexico. A sixteen-foot long calcite crystal is known in Iceland.

image: Around 70 calcium and carbonate ions come together to form a stable nanocluster, shown here schematically and not to scale. The structure of the crystal (right) is most likely already ...