NASA posted a map detailing the "Aboveground W...  ...map above was built from the National Biomass and Carbon Dataset (NBCD), released in 2011. It depicts the...  ...n of biomass—a measure of the amount of organic carbon —stored in the trunks, limbs, and leaves of tree...  ...on and most detailed view of fo...

The earth saw a mysterious episode of global warmi...  ...al warming 56 million years ago due to a surge of carbon into the atmosphere. Animals could walk from cont...  ...ighorn shrank to the size of Siamese cats; as the carbon ebbed from the atmosphere, they grew larger again...  ...n, in a burst of evolution...

Here on land, we undertake great engineering proje...  ...les in the Southern Ocean release 220,462 tons of carbon when they exhale carbon dioxide at the water's surface, but their poo sti...  ...ir poo stimulates the drawdown of 440,925 tons of carbon , according to the resear...

Since wines range from dirt cheap to astronomicall...  ...slabeling the vintage. How to catch these crooks? Carbon dating! Scientists can detect a wine's vintage to...  ...ear using methods to detect traces of radioactive carbon -14 released into the atmosphere by nuclear testin...  ...he atmosphere by nuclear t...

Climate change may be serious stuff for many of us...  ...ble. He's about to become the world's first " carbon " billionaire:Few people have been as vocal a...  ...Gore is poised to become the world's first " carbon billionaire," profiteering from government p...

[caption id="attachment_27079" align="alignleft" w...  ...sually takes nature thousands of years- that eats carbon from the air. Nanoarchitects are aiming to speed...  ...agnesium chloride. When the magnesium reacts with carbon dioxide in the air, a solid magnesium carbonate p...

Graphene is a new material made of carbon sheets only one atom thick: "It is the thinnes...  ...th of an ounce. Like diamond, graphene is pure carbon . It forms a six-sided mesh of atoms that, through...