13-06-29 To prevent coral reefs around the world from dying off, deep cuts in carbon dioxide emissions are required, says a new study from Carnegie's Katharine Ricke and Ken Caldeira. They find that all existing coral reefs will be engulfed in inhospitable（...

13-06-19 Ocean acidification due to rising carbon dioxide levels will reduce the density of coral skeletons, making coral reefs more vulnerable to disruption and erosion, according to a new study of corals growing where submarine springs naturally lower the...

13-06-07 Spindle-shaped inclusions in three-billion-year-old rocks are microfossils of plankton（浮游生物） that probably inhabited the oceans around the globe during that time, according to an international team of researchers. It is surprising to have larg...

13-06-03 Acidifying oceans could dramatically impact the world's squid species, according to a new study led by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) researchers and soon to be published in the journal PLOS ONE. Because squid are both ecologically and...

13-05-31 Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) are to blame for global warming since the 1970s and not carbon dioxide, according to a researcher from the University of Waterloo in a controversial new study published in the International Journal of Modern Physics B this...

13-05-31 Leading world climate change experts have thrown cold water on the idea that planting trees can offset carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels. Professor Brendan Mackey of Griffith University Climate Change Response Program is the lead author of...

13-05-29 Lawrence Livermore scientists have discovered and demonstrated a new technique to remove and store atmospheric carbon dioxide while generating carbon-negative hydrogen and producing alkalinity（碱性） , which can be used to offset ocean acidificatio...

13-05-21 The Amazon rain forest, popularly known as the lungs of the planet, inhales carbon dioxide as it exudes oxygen. Plants use carbon dioxide from the air to grow parts that eventually fall to the ground to decompose or get washed away by the region's p...

13-05-08 Chemical engineering researchers have identified a new mechanism to convert natural gas into energy up to 70 times faster, while effectively capturing the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2). This could make power generation from natural gas both cl...

13-05-03 Scientists from the Smithsonian and the University of Rhode Island have found unsuspected linkages between the oxidation（氧化的） state of iron in volcanic rocks and variations in the chemistry of the deep Earth. Not only do the trends run counter...