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A stunning three-minute video captures the excitement, difficulties, and physical challenges of trying to figure out how Earth works. Made possible by the efforts of more than 1200 scientists in 55…
Nature has published a special collection of DCO research that previously appeared in Nature journals. Many of the papers and commissioned review articles will be freely available for one year after…
A decade of DCO research from the Extreme Physics and Chemistry community is synthesized in an American Geophysical Union Monograph entitled Carbon in Earth’s Interior, to be published in December…
Deep Carbon 2019: Launching the Next Decade of Deep Carbon Science is an international science conference taking place from 24–26 October, 2019.
In a special collection of papers in Elements, DCO scientists highlight catastrophic disruptions to the deep carbon cycle during Earth’s history. The research underscores the magnitude of current…
A new book, Deep Carbon: Past to Present, compiles 10 years of DCO research. The volume serves as a comprehensive reference on the quantities, movements, forms, and origins of carbon in Earth through…
A new study finds that eruptions of kimberlite, a carbon-rich rock that commonly bears diamonds, all came from a single reservoir in the deep mantle. This reservoir was isolated until a few hundred…
Scientists update estimates of Earth’s immense interior carbon reservoirs, and how much carbon Deep Earth naturally swallows and exhales.
A large portion of deep-sea and subsurface organisms elude study due to the challenges posed by sampling and culturing microbes living in high-pressure environments. New technological advances and…
The Deep Carbon Observatory is delighted to announce the 2019 recipients of its Emerging Leader Award.
New research into subsurface life within the Deccan Traps, a vast, multi-layered 65-million-year-old lava flow in India, revealed distinct archaeal communities living within the volcanic rock and the…