It’s hard to miss something that weighs 37 billion tons—especially when it’s all around us. Thirty-seven billion tons is the amount of fossil-fuel-related carbon dioxide humans release into the ...
Plant and Soil Sciences Ph.D. alumna Elizabeth Smith uses machine learning to investigate soil respiration and the carbon cycle One of the world’s most critical processes is soil respiration. That’s ...
Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Global Monitoring Laboratory The chart shows monthly numbers of carbon dioxide molecules per million molecules of dry air. Because of seasonal ...
Editor's note: A volcano on the Reykjanes peninsula began erupting on Dec. 18. This story has been updated to reflect the ongoing eruption. A volcano beneath Iceland’s Reykjanes peninsula erupted Dec.