Insects Take A Bigger Bite Out Of Plants In A Higher Carbon Diox...

March GEOLOGY and GSA TODAY media highlights
Topics include: imaging of impact strata on Mars' Holden Crater; Eocene-Oligocene conditions leading to the freezing of Antarctica; evidence that...

Global Warming's Ecosystem Double Whammy
Plants and soils act like sponges for atmospheric carbon dioxide, but new research on the cover of this week's Nature finds that one abnormally warm...

Curbing coal emissions alone might avert climate danger, say...
(The Earth Institute at Columbia University) An ongoing rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide from burning of fossil fuels might be kept below harmful...

Adding Lime To Seawater May Cut Carbon Dioxide Levels Back To...
A workable way of reducing carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere by adding lime, found in limestone, to seawater has the potential to dramatically...

Greenhouse Gases, Carbon Dioxide And Methane, Rise Sharply In...
Last year alone global levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, the primary driver of global climate change, increased by 0.6 percent, or 19 billion...