What if cropdusting could cool down the climate? What about rockdusting? Turns out sprinkling rock dust on fields may enhance a process called rock weathering, capable of trapping and removing ...

Lithos Carbon, the leader in permanent carbon capture through enhanced rock weathering, today announced the appointment of Rob Hranac as Chief Operating Officer. Rob brings extensive experience in ...

From a struggling family tea estate to an innovative climate venture, Alt Carbon has raised $12 million in a seed round as it plans to scale its carbon dioxide removal work in the South Asian nation.

Mati Carbon team members, from left, Arjit Adaval, Dr. Noah Planavsky, Shantanu Agarwal, Dr. Jake Jordan and Pratik Chougule accept the grand prize XPRIZE Carbon Removal award on Tuesday, April 22, ...

Professor Arline T. Geronimus of the University of Michigan developed the theory of “weathering” while studying health complications of first-time mothers and identifying racial and economic ...

Dr. Arline T. Geronimus presenting live at the Mondavi Center’s Vanderhoef Studio Theatre on Mar. 4 (Gregory Urquiaga/UC Davis) In an hour-long presentation titled “Weathering and Health Equity: ...

Forty years ago, the public was outraged. It seemed there was a wave of teenage girls, particularly Black teenage girls, getting pregnant. "This was a new idea, this new deviant class of people, and ...

Natural rock weathering is a fundamental part of Earth’s carbon cycle but occurs over thousands of years. Enhancing this cycle by spreading fine volcanic rock on agricultural land is a form of ...

On a banana plantation in rural Australia, a second-generation farming family spreads crushed volcanic rock between rows of ripening fruit. Eight thousand kilometers away, two young men in central ...

The 2024-25 Campus Community Book Project Title is “Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society” by Arline Geronimus. (Megan Macklin/UC Davis) Updated June 14: The book ...

For decades, Black women have been told that the negative health outcomes we face are our own fault. We’re fed rhetoric that we are diabetic because we won’t stop eating foods passed down as heirlooms ...

Breathing. I close my eyes and imagine my breath as an anchor, pulling me down into this moment. I notice thoughts that come up. Refocus. Breathing. All I need to focus on is right now. Just breathing ...