Carbon

Stand in a dry field on a windy afternoon and it is easy to assume the wind is stealing water from the plants around you. For a single leaf, that has been known to be wrong for about a decade. In…

For a year, a research team released measured amounts of methane at a site in Arizona, timing each release to the moment one of 12 satellites passed overhead, and had analysis teams in nine countries…

Oil and gas operations in the contiguous United States released less methane for each unit of energy they produced between 2019 and 2024, even as production grew, according to a satellite-based study…

A team at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory reports that depth through the soil profile, not temperature, drove what carbon-cycling microbes were doing in a California forest soil kept 4 °C…

The hottest hour of a summer day in a Chinese city tends to arrive around lunchtime, which is also the hour when several million people decide what to eat. For a growing number of them the answer is…

Agriculture has raised calcium inputs to cultivated Mollisols in the United States four- to five-fold, according to a geochemical model of US soils published Oct. 13, 2026, in Communications Earth &…

Spreading crushed basalt on China's croplands for a single year could remove 0.44 to 0.79 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide by 2100, at a net cost of 127 to 226 U.S. dollars for every metric ton…

A study published Oct. 7, 2026, in Communications Earth & Environment estimates that ozone made by Amazon fires costs the forest extra carbon equal to about a quarter of what the fires emit directly.…

Researchers at Nankai University paired three carbon additives with three industrial pollutants in bench-scale bioreactors run under an applied electric current, and pollutant removal differed by up…

Two statisticians have calculated how many measurements a methane campaign needs in each of six US oil and gas basins to keep sampling error in the basin's average emission rate within bounds. They…

Nutrient pollution leaves more of the carbon buried in lake beds unprotected and easier to break down, according to a study published Oct. 2 in Communications Earth & Environment. Lake sediments hold…

Over two years, 9.5% to 11% of the carbon dioxide that crushed basalt could in theory remove from the air left a Vermont watershed, dissolved in its stream, a team led by Yale University researchers…