One of the many possible tools to stabilize Earth’s climate by reducing atmospheric carbon dioxide had its potential better defined this week, with a new study shedding light on the effectiveness of ...

For many hundreds of millions of years, the average temperature at the surface of the Earth has varied by not much more than 20 degrees Celsius, facilitating life on our planet. To maintain such ...

Weathering steel has been a trendy choice among architects for many years, but as this diverse roundup of projects completed in 2025 shows, any reports of it going out of style are greatly exaggerated ...

Israeli researchers are working to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by speeding up the natural weathering process by which rain dissolves rock. In nature, rain absorbs CO2 from the ...

What if cropdusting could cool down the climate? What about rockdusting? Turns out sprinkling rock dust on fields may enhance a process called rock weathering, capable of trapping and removing ...

STATE OF SÃO PAULO, Brazil — Across vast stretches of farmland in southern Brazil, researchers at a carbon removal company are attempting to accelerate a natural process that normally unfolds over ...

As humanity continues the arduous task of weaning itself off fossil fuels, there has been an increased onus on the development of carbon removal technologies. Unlike capture and storage, these aim to ...

One of the most challenging problems in paleoclimate research is how orbital cyclicities forced Earth’s climate variations during the late Quaternary. To address this issue, we investigated the ...

Professor Arline T. Geronimus of the University of Michigan developed the theory of “weathering” while studying health complications of first-time mothers and identifying racial and economic ...

Dr. Arline T. Geronimus presenting live at the Mondavi Center’s Vanderhoef Studio Theatre on Mar. 4 (Gregory Urquiaga/UC Davis) In an hour-long presentation titled “Weathering and Health Equity: ...

Forty years ago, the public was outraged. It seemed there was a wave of teenage girls, particularly Black teenage girls, getting pregnant. "This was a new idea, this new deviant class of people, and ...