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Quicker option to make mineral to take away carbon dioxide from environment

Scientists have developed an accelerated option to produce magnesite, a mineral which might seize the greenhouse gasoline carbon dioxide from the environment, at room temperature. Eradicating carbon dioxide from the environment would gradual world warming. This work takes a unique … Continue reading

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Ammonia distribution in Earth’s higher environment

A brand new research helps make clear how ammonia is current in Earth’s higher environment. Utilizing pc modeling, the researchers discovered ammonia molecules trapped in liquid cloud droplets are launched throughout convection the place these particles freeze and subsequently collide … Continue reading

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Microbes from marine volcanic vents reveal how people adjusted to a altering ambiance

Scientists element the construction of MBH, a molecular advanced concerned in microbial respiration. The near-atomic decision pictures are the primary ever of MBH and present that its construction is remarkably just like its counterpart in people, Advanced I. Geology News … Continue reading

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Mountain erosion could add CO2 to the ambiance

Scientists have lengthy recognized that steep mountain ranges can draw carbon dioxide (CO2) out of the ambiance — as erosion exposes new rock, it additionally begins a chemical response between minerals on hill slopes and CO2 within the air, ‘weathering’ … Continue reading

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Two-billion-year-old salt rock reveals rise of oxygen in historical environment

Salts left over from historical seawater reveal new details about the oxygenation of the Earth’s environment greater than 2 billion years in the past. Geology News — ScienceDaily

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Primordial oceans had oxygen 250 million years earlier than the environment

New analysis has pushed a serious milestone within the evolution of Earth’s surroundings again by about 250 million years. Geology News — ScienceDaily

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Changes in Earth’s crust caused oxygen to fill the atmosphere

New research has uncovered a direct link between changes in the earth’s crust three billion years ago and the introduction of free oxygen to the atmosphere. Without these changes, oxygen could have been suppressed in earth’s crust forever, so the … Continue reading

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Venus: Jet-setting atmosphere

Nature Geoscience 10, 622 (2017). doi:10.1038/ngeo3022 Author: Alain Hauchecorne A fast equatorial jet in the Venusian cloud layer has been revealed by the Akatsuki orbiter by tracking cloud movement in near-infrared images. The findings suggest that the Venusian atmosphere is … Continue reading

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The deep atmosphere of Venus and the possible role of density-driven separation of CO2 and N2

Nature Geoscience 10, 473 (2017). doi:10.1038/ngeo2971 Authors: Sebastien Lebonnois & Gerald Schubert Nature Geoscience – Issue – nature.com science feeds

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Regionally strong feedbacks between the atmosphere and terrestrial biosphere

Nature Geoscience 10, 410 (2017). doi:10.1038/ngeo2957 Authors: Julia K. Green, Alexandra G. Konings, Seyed Hamed Alemohammad, Joseph Berry, Dara Entekhabi, Jana Kolassa, Jung-Eun Lee & Pierre Gentine Nature Geoscience – Issue – nature.com science feeds

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