Rivers deliver freshwater, nutrients, and carbon to Earth's oceans, influencing the chemistry of coastal seawater worldwide.

Seaweeds are versatile algae. They are sources of food, medicine, and many other products, and they have the added benefit of being extremely efficient at removing CO2 from the atmosphere as they grow ...

Where would carbon-based life be without carbon? There are 118 known chemical elements, but carbon is the fourth most abundant and perhaps the most important to human life. Everywhere you look, ...

Planar tetracoordinate carbon species subvert the long‐standing paradigm of tetrahedral carbon geometry, demonstrating that a carbon atom can be stabilised in a planar configuration with four ...

Hydrogen from the oceans could power the world with renewable energy if scientists can figure out an efficient way to extract hydrogen from abundant seawater on industrial scales. Splitting water into ...

New research suggests that seaweed aquaculture boosts seawater alkalinity, enabling millions—and potentially tens of millions ...

Scientists know iron oxide minerals store large amounts of carbon in soils, but lack a detailed, quantitative understanding of the specific chemical mechanisms that allow them to bind such a wide ...

With carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere increasing in recent decades, there is a growing urgency to find strategies for capturing and holding carbon. Researchers from Kansas State University ...

To help understand the emergence of life on Earth, some scientists are trying to unravel the cosmic carbon cycle. The interstellar chemistry of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)—a large family ...

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