News
The Materials of the Universe Workshop brought together experts from astrophysics, planetary science, physics, chemistry, biology, materials science and engineering to define grand questions and…
A special collection of papers focused on “Carbon Degassing Through Volcanoes and Active Tectonic Regions” brings together discoveries from the DECADE (Deep Earth Carbon Degassing) initiative and…
An analysis of crystals in volcanic rocks suggests that during Iceland’s Borgarhraun eruption, magma ascended rapidly from the base of the crust, reaching the surface in just days to weeks.
During DCO’s Carbon Mineral Challenge, launched in 2015, mineralogists identified 30 new carbon-containing minerals. More than 100 carbon minerals likely remain undiscovered, however, and more than…
A large contingent of DCO researchers will participate in Goldschmidt 2019 on 18–23 August 2019 in Barcelona, Spain.
Wikipedia contains 1.5 million citations and drives more traffic to online scholarly articles than all but five other websites. By getting involved as a Wikipedia editor, deep carbon scientists can…
Stories are powerful. Whether hilarious or heartbreaking, subversive or soothing, they reflect who we are and what matters to us.
AGU 2019 Fall Meeting abstract submission deadline is 31 July 2019, 11:59 P.M. EDT.
Highly efficient archaea, called Thaumarchaea, out-survive bacteria in the energy-poor, oxygen-containing sediments beneath the deep sea. These Thaumarchaea consume bits of proteins from dead cells…
Just in time for the “Year of Carbon,” DCO Executive Director Robert Hazen has published a sweeping history of carbon: Symphony in C: Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything.
Sediments from erosion reduce the friction when one tectonic plate sinks beneath another into the mantle. This also may be true in Earth’s past, and a new hypothesis proposes that sediments helped…