Since the early 1980s, Earth scientists have understood that erosion and weathering of rock slowly removes CO 2 from the ...

Organofluorine compounds—sometimes called "forever chemicals"—are increasingly turning up in our drinking water, oceans and even human blood, posing a potential threat to the environment and human ...

Natural gas in nature is classified into two main types based on its formation mechanism: gas of organic origin and gas of inorganic origin. Gas of organic origin is further divided into two subtypes: ...

Stable carbon isotope analysis has emerged as a powerful tool for tracing the origins, formation pathways and atmospheric processing of carbonaceous aerosol particles. By measuring the ratio of 13C to ...

This study presents a novel isotope measurement technique to distinguish CO2 sources in concrete, enhancing carbon accounting ...

The carbon-14 isotope is being produced at the Qinshan nuclear power plant, China National Nuclear Corporation has announced. The Qinshan plant (Image: CNNC) According to CNNC the development means ...

For 80 years Oak Ridge National Laboratory has produced isotopes that treat cancer and power deep space exploration.

Some periods in Earth history are so different from our own that they may as well belong to another planet. Many people are ...