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Earth system box models are essential tools for reconstructing long-term climatic and environmental evolution and uncovering ...

Scientists have come up with a model to better understand how weathering, the process that acts as Earth's thermostat, responds to changing global temperatures. Rocks, rain and carbon dioxide help ...

Determining what controls the geological carbon cycle is crucial for understanding climate stability, planetary habitability and the long-term consequences of anthropogenic carbon emissions. On long ...

Figure 1: Schematic of the rock cycle and the evolution of controls on atmospheric oxygen. We performed a sensitivity analysis increasing shale oxygen diffusivity (controlled by porosity) and removing ...

For many hundreds of millions of years, the average temperature at the surface of the Earth has varied by not much more than 20 degrees Celsius, facilitating life on our planet. To maintain such ...