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• All Minerals Considered | 12 April 2024

  Out of sight burbankite

  Burbankite is a rare sodium carbonate mineral that is easily dissolved away in its host igneous rocks. Its formation and dissolution can help concentrate rare earth elements that are vital for a low-carbon future, as Sam Broom-Fendley explains.

  • Sam Broom-Fendley

• World View | 09 June 2023

  My journey out of fossil fuel-funded research

  Research on the energy transition needs to involve all communities and requires breaking the paradigm of traditional industry-funded research, argues Jef Caers from his personal story.

  • Jef Caers

• Article | 07 April 2022

  Fluocerite as a precursor to rare earth element fractionation in ore-forming systems

  Experiments under simulated hydrothermal conditions suggest that the mineral fluocerite may serve as an intermediate phase that fractionates the rare earth elements in ore-forming systems.

  • Andrew C. Strzelecki
  • , Artas Migdisov
  •  & Xiaofeng Guo

• Perspective | 26 July 2021

  Potential CO₂ removal from enhanced weathering by ecosystem responses to powdered rock

  The enhanced CO₂ uptake by vegetation in response to powdered rock should be considered in assessing the feasibility of enhanced weathering as a negative emission technology in mitigating climate change, suggest simulations of a land surface model.

  • Daniel S. Goll
  • , Philippe Ciais
  •  & Sara Vicca

• News & Views | 03 June 2021

  Dissolution resolution

  Analysis of global ocean carbonate chemistry and water mass age information confirms the substantial in situ dissolution of calcium carbonate particles in the upper water column.

  • Kitack Lee
  •  & Richard A. Feely

• Article | 11 December 2017

  Southward shift of the global wind energy resource under high carbon dioxide emissions

  Wind power for energy generation is projected to decrease in northern mid-latitudes and increase in the tropics and Southern Hemisphere, suggests an analysis of climate model simulations utilizing an industry wind turbine power curve.

  • Kristopher B. Karnauskas
  • , Julie K. Lundquist
  •  & Lei Zhang

• Article | 22 May 2017

  Top-of-atmosphere radiative forcing affected by brown carbon in the upper troposphere

  Brown carbon absorbs light, but its climate impacts in the upper troposphere are not well known. A series of aircraft observations in the US reveals that convection lofts brown carbon to high altitudes, causing greater warming than at lower altitudes.

  • Yuzhong Zhang
  • , Haviland Forrister
  •  & Rodney J. Weber

• Article | 27 March 2017

  Mobility and persistence of methane in groundwater in a controlled-release field experiment

  Most monitoring of methane well leakage focuses on emissions of methane gas to the atmosphere. In a controlled-release field experiment, significant methane also persisted in aquifer groundwater due to lateral migration along bedding planes.

  • Aaron G. Cahill
  • , Colby M. Steelman
  •  & Beth L. Parker

• Article | 23 January 2017

  Potentially exploitable supercritical geothermal resources in the ductile crust

  The brittle–ductile transition is thought to control crustal permeability. Laboratory experiments and model simulations show that permeability is also stress dependent and ductile granitic rocks may have enough permeability to host geothermal resources.

  • Noriaki Watanabe
  • , Tatsuya Numakura
  •  & Noriyoshi Tsuchiya