Physics

Rock Dust: The Agricultural Gamble to Combat CO₂ and Benefit the Climate

While global carbon dioxide emissions reached 37.4 billion tonnes in 2024, the solutions to permanently extract this greenhouse gas from the atmosphere become crucial. Among them, the accelerated alteration of rocks, or Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW), attracts attention. This process consists in spreading crushed silicate rocks on agricultural soils to trigger chemical reactions capturing carbon. … Read more

How Did the Moon Form?

[Un article issu de The Conversation écrit par Guillaume Paris – Géochimiste, chargé de recherche CNRS au Centre de recherches pétrographiques et géochimiques de Nancy, Université de Lorraine]