By Frances Deegan and Ralf Halama Carbon – the element on everyone’s lips. Carbon is unquestionably one of the most important elements on Earth – terrestrial life is carbon-based and so are many of our energy sources. From the perspective of a human time-scale, biological and anthropogenic (caused by human activity) carbon fluxes are very important (e.g. through industrial activity and burni ...[Read More]
Can limestone digestion by volcanoes contribute to higher atmospheric carbon dioxide levels?
Degassing at Merapi volcano, Indonesia. Source: GFZ.