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Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced in a tweet on Thursday night he will be give a $100 million prize for the…

The world’s grasslands are an essential carbon sink, and may even be more efficient at capturing atmospheric carbon…

This week, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed carbon dioxide standards for the airline industry. Yes, the…

Scientists have found deep-sea graphite that might help solve a deep-sea carbonaceous mystery, according to a new…

The awkwardly named Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has declared that burning wood is carbon neutral. In the…

A team of physicists has figured out how to bend diamonds, according to a new paper. Okay, we’re talking about…

Hundreds of millions of gallons of radioactive water remain sitting around the site of the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi…

Researchers from Rice University say that around 4.4 billion years ago, a Mercury-like planet smashed into Earth,…

From deep inside a Siberian mine, researchers have catalogued a series of materials unlike any others yet found in…

Several years ago, scientists calculated the properties of an exotic form of carbon—called Carbyne—and found that it…

As humanity’s first space colonists are getting ready to ship off to Mars in 2030, the citizens of Earth may have…

Researchers have discovered a new form of carbon structure, called Q-carbon, that’s harder than diamond and allows…

A new bulletin from the World Meteorological Organization reports that the amount of greenhouse gases in the…

French wine lovers have always taken their soil very seriously. But now the country’s government has introduced…

In the semiconductor industry, size matters — and people are worried that it won’t be able make transistors any…

Carbon dioxide is a funny molecule. Life as we know it wouldn’t exist without CO2. But when we pump too much of it…

There’s a mystery inside trees upon which the fate of coastal cities, threatened by rising sea levels from climate…

You might think early movies got called “flickers” and then “flicks” because they flicked through a series of…

New high-resolution maps of international woodland reveal that the world lost 18 million hectares of forest—the same…

What do we do with a problem like carbon dioxide? We want to remove the excess from our atmosphere, but how? In…