Magnesium oxide is a promising material for capturing carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere and injecting it deep underground to limit the effects of climate change. But making the method ...

Want to see a fire that’s so determined that it will burn merrily away even though you rob it of oxygen? Then grab a big block of dry ice and some magnesium and prepare for horror! …and cool visual ...

Carbon dioxide passed through the solution of magnesium sulfate and magnesium hydroxide converts both to magnesium carbonate or magnesite, which becomes a solid and falls to the bottom. This solid can ...

One potential substance for directly extracting carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and depositing it underground to mitigate the consequences of climate change is magnesium oxide. However, to make the ...

Scientists are one step closer to a long-sought way to store carbon dioxide in rocks. A new technique speeds up the formation of a mineral called magnesite that, in nature, captures and stores large ...

A 25-year-long study provides the first quantitative measurement of in situ calcium-magnesium silicate mineral dissolution by ants, termites, tree roots, and bare ground. This study reveals that ants ...

An abandoned mine in California is providing scientists with important data that could lead to a possible new weapon to fight global warming. Massive amounts of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide ...

In nineteenth century London, as described by Charles Dickens in ‘Our Mutual Friend’, waste was collected from the streets by an army of private contractors, and stacked into enormous ‘dust piles’, in ...