Planting trees has long been touted as a major tool in the fight against climate change. And on the surface, that makes a lot ...

Calcium carbonate is the largest reservoir of carbon on the planet. It is found in rocks the world over, shells of both land- and water-dwelling creatures, and pearls, coral, marble and limestone.

A soil-dwelling microbe has shown a surprising ability to trap carbon dioxide and turn it into rock. Scientists have ...

An aragonite crystal -- with its characteristic "sheaf of wheat" look -- consumed a particle of amorphous calcium carbonate as it formed. Credit: Nielsen et al Science, 2014.

Calcium carbonate, or CaCO3, comprises more than 4% of the earth's crust. Its most common natural forms are chalk, limestone, and marble, produced by the sedimentation of the shells of small ...

It's well-known that trees absorb carbon dioxide from the air to create their structure's organic building blocks. Some trees ...

What links sea urchins, limestone and climate change? The common thread is calcium carbonate, one of the most widespread minerals on Earth. UC Davis researchers have now measured the energy changes ...

Ronak Jain, Harsh Bhu, Ritesh Purohit, Application of Thermal Remote Sensing technique for mapping of ultramafic, carbonate and siliceous rocks using ASTER data in Southern Rajasthan, India, Current ...