Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. For all its plant and animal life aboveground, the Amazon rainforest ...

Within two hours, both materials completely transformed into new carbonate minerals with carbon from CO2 trapped inside. For a more realistic test, wet samples of calcium silicate and magnesium ...

As temperatures rise during the Martian spring, CO2 trapped beneath the surface is violently released, carving out eerie, web-like channels and sending bursts of dark material across the planet ...

Consider a can of soda. When the can is closed (pressurized), the soda contains dissolved carbon dioxide (CO2). When you open ...

By the end of the day, about 7 p.m. Pacific Standard Time, data from 16 crystals was collected and analyzed. The data, which ...

For all its plant and animal life aboveground, the Amazon rainforest’s soils are surprisingly poor in nutrients necessary for growing food. Thousands of years ago, the region’s Indigenous ...

This story was originally published by Grist with the headline This ancient bit of ingenuity keeps carbon trapped for thousands of years on Mar 3, 2025.