Tag: carbon dioxide
Greenhouse gases: CO2 or methane, which is worse?
Carbon dioxide and methane are among the best known greenhouse gases. The increase in their emission into the atmosphere is the cause of the current global warming. the carbon dioxide…
Agriculture, the cause of global warming
The agricultural and food sectors will be very strongly impacted by the multiple consequences of global warming, as we have seen in the first two reports in this series. Continuing…
A volcanic fertilization of the oceans would have led to one of the largest mass extinctions
Scientists at the University of Southampton studied the effects of volcanic materials on ocean chemistry at the end of the Ordovician, around 450 million years ago, in an attempt to…
Soils with more fungi can store more carbon
Global warming and damage caused by intensive agriculture and deforestation. Some models now predict that 40% less carbon can be stored in soils by 2100 compared to what older simulations…
Restart the magnetic field of Mars? Researchers have the solution
If today, space agencies are officially targeting the Moon, they are already looking to Mars. But to permanently establish a colony on the Red Planet, it will be necessary to…