- Amplification of global warming by carbon-cycle feedback significantly less than thought, study in "Nature" suggests http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100127134721.htm 3 comments science
- Why 'Carbon-Cycle Feedbacks' Could Drive Temperatures Even Higher https://e360.yale.edu/features/why-carbon-cycle-feedbacks-could-drive-temperatures-even-higher 4 comments climate
- Scientists uncover relationship between lavas erupting on sea floor and deep-carbon cycle http://phys.org/news/2013-05-scientists-uncover-relationship-lavas-erupting.html 11 comments science
- The World’s Most Valuable Company Vows to Be 100% Carbon Neutral for its Supply Chain and Product Life-cycle by 2030 https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/apple-commits-to-being-carbon-neutral-by-2030/ 11 comments environment
- A team of scientists believes they've found a way to convert CO2 emissions into energy-rich fuel in a carbon-neutral cycle that uses a very abundant natural resource - silicon. The potential result: energy without harmful emissions. http://scienmag.com/university-of-toronto-scientists-solve-puzzle-of-converting-gaseous-carbon-dioxide-to-fuel/ 28 comments science
- Cycling’s governing body bans carbon monoxide rebreathing on health grounds https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/feb/01/cycling-uci-bans-carbon-monoxide-rebreathing-health-grounds 10 comments sports
- Cycling governing body seeks ban on carbon monoxide use https://www.espn.com/olympics/cycling/story/_/id/42928489/cycling-governing-body-seeks-ban-carbon-monoxide-use 49 comments sports
- I visited the Cycling Culture Museum in Taiwan and learned that Giant uses 60 different weaves of carbon fiber for their bikes https://youtu.be/RnAJqhcdp8U?si=6YgsRE1JQ_QqVYec 7 comments bicycling
- Radiocarbon: A key tracer for studying Earth’s dynamo, climate system, carbon cycle, and Sun https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.abd7096 5 comments science
- BMW to reduce carbon emissions in car life cycle 40% by 2030 https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/bmw-reduce-carbon-emissions-car-life-cycle-40-by-2030-2021-09-02/?rpc=401& 13 comments technology
- The origin and diversification of pteropods precede past perturbations in the Earth’s carbon cycle https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/09/23/1920918117 5 comments science
- Carbon capture and the Allam Cycle: The future of electricity or a carbon pipe(line) dream? https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/energysource/carbon-capture-and-the-allam-cycle-the-future-of-electricity-or-a-carbon-pipeline-dream/ 9 comments energy
- Phytoplankton accumulatively are responsible for half of all global photosynthesis and have declined ~40 percent since 1950 which is a serious concern for the world's carbon cycle https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/phytoplankton-population/ 13 comments science
- NASA is Trying to Map Out the Entire Earth's Carbon Cycle from Space http://www.newsweek.com/nasa-trying-map-out-entire-earths-carbon-cycle-space-684567 11 comments worldnews
- Another side of cycling (and why I might have a hard time adopting carbon) https://youtu.be/CoH1cnQWB_I 4 comments bicycling
- In order to improve carbon cycle models, researchers measured the rates at which plants absorb carbon during prolonged periods of different temperatures. The research suggests plants begin to take up more carbon once they're acclimated to warmer temperatures. http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2017/q2/plants-take-up-more-carbon-once-acclimated-to-warmer-temperatures.html 3 comments science
- Study finds that river dams are major disruptor to global carbon cycle, trapping almost a 5th of riverine organic carbon globally https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15347 6 comments science
- restored ecosystems are diminished in species and cycling of carbon and nitrogen, even if complete recovery is reached https://www.sesync.org/news/wed-2017-01-18-1109/new-study-ecosystem-disturbance-and-the-recovery-debt 6 comments science
- Only $2,000 for custom carbon cycling shoes. http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/product-news/team-gb-wear-custom-moulded-carbon-fibre-shoes-rio-olympics-233703?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social 11 comments bicycling
- Science AMA Series: I’m Roger Aines, a geochemist who runs the Carbon Fuel Cycle Program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. We’re working to capture greenhouse gases by using things found in your kitchen cabinet. AMA. https://www.llnl.gov/news/microcapsules-capture-carbon-safely 284 comments science
- “Fertilizing” the ocean with iron is one proposal for removing atmospheric CO2 (e.g., ‘give me half a tanker of iron, and I will give you the next Ice Age’). This Nature paper doesn’t propose that, but establishes new details about iron in seawater, an essential part of the carbon cycle. http://www.sc.edu/uofsc/stories/2014/07_john_seth_atlantic_iron.php#.u7r_hy1dx64 3 comments science
- Making sugar from carbon dioxide: The Calvin Cycle http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/lab-rat/2013/01/20/making-sugar-from-carbon-dioxide-the-calvin-cycle/ 3 comments technology
- Hi-Tech Cycling -- Engineers Create A Strong But Lightweight Isotruss Bike Using Carbon Fibers http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2008/1201-hitech_cycling.htm 9 comments bicycling
- Taking the entire carbon life cycling bicycle use into consideration, bicycling is still over 10x as environmentally friendly as driving, study says. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/dec/12/cycle-like-danes-cut-emissions 4 comments bicycling
- Most college students in the United States do not grasp the scientific basis of the carbon cycle http://www.medicaldaily.com/news/20110107/5039/college-students-lack-scientific-literacy-study-finds.htm 56 comments science
- Estimates of the carbon cycle - vital to predicting climate change - are incorrect, Virginia Tech researchers show https://vtx.vt.edu/articles/2022/03/cals-carbon-cycle.html 12 comments science
- Climate: Soil algae greatly contribute to carbon cycle https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/941928 2 comments science
- Increase in agriculture industrialization have led to soil organic carbon levels to drop drastically. This has had a detrimental impact on the global carbon cycle, soil health, and crop yield. However the soil microbiome can still put up a fight. https://micro-bites.org/2021/06/07/a-low-carb-diet-resilience-of-the-soil-microbiome/ 40 comments science
- Boosts in productivity of corn and other crops modify Northern Hemisphere carbon dioxide cycle http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=133162&org=nsf&from=news 4 comments science
- “Fertilization” of the ocean with iron is a proposal for removing CO2 from the atmosphere. This paper doesn’t suggest that, but establishes new details about iron in seawater, an essential part of the carbon cycle and possible driver of past glacial-interglacial changes. http://www.sc.edu/uofsc/stories/2014/07_john_seth_atlantic_iron.php#.u7wai41dx64 4 comments science
- Big Oil Anticipates 10-Fold Surge in Carbon Emission Cost - “These things are built to have 100-year lifetimes, so these companies have to think about what regulatory regimes will look like way beyond the next presidential election cycle.” http://bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-05/big-oil-braces-for-10-fold-surge-in-carbon-emission-costs.html 3 comments business
- Civia Cycles recalling ALL carbon fiber forks due to safety concerns, switching to steel forks on all of their bikes http://www.civiacycles.com/civiablog.php?blogid=144 46 comments bicycling
- Single-celled microbes known as ciliates can survive entirely on a diet of viruses—something never observed before. Each individual ciliate can eat 1 million viruses per day. The finding has major implications for understanding the carbon cycle. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/these-microbes-eat-viruses 5 comments environment
- Researchers have found that the formation and breakup of supercontinents over millions of years controls volcanic carbon emissions. The results could lead to a reinterpretation of how the carbon cycle has evolved over Earth’s history, and how this has impacted the evolution of its habitability http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/link-identified-between-continental-breakup-volcanic-carbon-emissions-and-evolution 3 comments science
- Glacier shrinkage is causing a 'green transition'. Streams are becoming warmer, calmer, and clearer, giving algae and other microorganisms an opportunity to become abundant and to contribute more to local carbon and nutrient cycles. https://actu.epfl.ch/news/glacier-shrinkage-is-causing-a-green-transition/ 14 comments science
- Researchers discover new producer of crucial vitamin B12: New research has determined that a single group of micro-organisms may be responsible for much of the world’s vitamin B12 production in the oceans, with implications for the global carbon cycle and climate change https://uwaterloo.ca/news/news/researchers-discover-new-producer-crucial-vitamin 12 comments science
- A sixth mass extinction event could reach the tipping point by 2100. Study analyzes changes in carbon cycle leading up to the 5 main extinction events – as well as dozens of smaller ones – and found that the end of this century could mark the tipping point for a 6th mass extinction event. http://newatlas.com/sixth-mass-extinction-carbon-cycle/51439/ 13 comments science
- A yeast species(Pichia pastoris ) has been engineered to consume CO2 as it’s sole source of carbon by incorporating the components of the photosynthesis dark cycle and disruption of alternative pathways. A total of 8 enzymes were engineered now to consume CO2 and feed it into the methanol metabolism https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-019-0363-0.epdf?shared_access_token=ong3v1ybeycij9ckk4rnxnrgn0jajwel9jnr3zotv0niam83iiiseykl1jlszm23donwbvi7jovy9m3hjojctvsmskzoagqyrtwfbrel6bke93mew4whqa6orwmcaead4mkaigat_dxixzuicsik_q%3D%3D 14 comments science
- The end-Cretaceous Chicxulub impact caused rapid ocean acidification, and that the resulting ecological collapse in the oceans had long-lasting effects for global carbon cycling and climate. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/21/ocean-acidification-can-cause-mass-extinctions-fossils-reveal 4 comments science
- The conversion of CO₂ into e-fuels by light offers a sustainable solution to close the carbon cycle. In this work, ETH researchers introduce disordered plasmonic Cu-Pd network metamaterials as a truly-scalable material platform for the light-assisted conversion of CO₂ into CO, methane and ethane. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.nanolett.4c05426 32 comments science