Chemical evidence of ancient life detected in 3.3 billion-year-old rocks
Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington DC New method also detects molecular signs of photosynthesis almost 1 billion years earlier than […]
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Leading scientists, philosophers identify nature’s missing evolutionary law
Carnegie Science, Washington DC Evolution of plants, animals: “A very special case within a far larger natural phenomenon.” Similar marvels
Carnegie Institution for Science, Deep Carbon Observatory, Geology, metals, mineralogy, Robert Hazen
Crushed, zapped, boiled, baked, more: Nature used 57 recipes to make Earth’s 10,500+ ‘mineral kinds’
Carnegie Science, Earth & Planets Laboratory, Washington DC Water helped 80+% of mineral species to form Biology had a direct
Study quantifies metal supplies needed to reach EU’s climate neutrality goal
KU LEUVEN / EUROMETAUX Independent KU Leuven university study, commissioned by EU industry, echoes IEA warning of severe global competition
Recycling critical metals in e-waste: Make it the law, experts warn EU, citing security issues
World Resources Forum, Switzerland, CEWASTE Project / UN University Led by the World Resources Forum, consortium designates recycling, reuse of
Imperfect diamonds paved road to historic Deep Earth discoveries
Deep Carbon Observatory, Carnegie Institution, Washington DC Materials trapped inside diamonds offer clues to life’s origin; suggest oceans’ worth of
Scientists quantify global volcanic CO2 venting; estimate total carbon on Earth
Deep Carbon Observatory, Carnegie Institution, Washington DC Scientists update estimates of Earth’s immense interior carbon reservoirs, and how much carbon
Rewriting the textbook on fossil fuels: New technologies help unravel nature’s methane recipes
Deep Carbon Observatory Washington DC Not all methane originated in buried, decayed remains of ancient life; some deep hydrocarbons aren’t
Life in deep Earth totals 15 to 23 billion tonnes of carbon — hundreds of times more than humans
Deep Carbon Observatory Washington DC Deep Carbon Observatory collaborators, exploring the ‘Galapagos of the deep,’ add to what’s known, unknown,
New EU ‘urban mining’ tools map valuable resources in e-waste, scrap vehicles, mine waste
Project ProSUM, Brussels Standardized, consolidated data helps to identify recovery potential of secondary raw materials worth € billions wasted annually