[HTML][HTML] Climate change: Strategies for mitigation and adaptation

F Wang, JD Harindintwali, K Wei, Y Shan… - The Innovation …, 2023 - the-innovation.org
The sustainability of life on Earth is under increasing threat due to human-induced climate
change. This perilous change in the Earth's climate is caused by increases in carbon dioxide …

Lithium extraction from unconventional aqueous resources–a review on recent technological development for seawater and geothermal brines

EA Mends, P Chu - Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
The increasing adoption of lithium in clean energy technologies has promoted significant
development of novel and environmentally sustainable techniques for lithium extraction from …

Global CO2 Consumption by Silicate Rock Chemical Weathering: Its Past and Future

S Zhang, X Bai, C Zhao, Q Tan, G Luo, J Wang… - Earth's …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Silicate rock weathering maintains a stable and long‐term absorption of CO2. However, the
magnitude, spatial pattern, and evolution characteristics of global silicate rock weathering …

U-Pb constraints on pulsed eruption of the Deccan Traps across the end-Cretaceous mass extinction

B Schoene, MP Eddy, KM Samperton, CB Keller… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Temporal correlation between some continental flood basalt eruptions and mass extinctions
has been proposed to indicate causality, with eruptive volatile release driving environmental …

Snowball Earth climate dynamics and Cryogenian geology-geobiology

PF Hoffman, DS Abbot, Y Ashkenazy, DI Benn… - Science …, 2017 - science.org
Geological evidence indicates that grounded ice sheets reached sea level at all latitudes
during two long-lived Cryogenian (58 and≥ 5 My) glaciations. Combined uranium-lead and …

How temperature-dependent silicate weathering acts as Earth's geological thermostat

SL Brantley, A Shaughnessy, MI Lebedeva… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Earth's climate may be stabilized over millennia by solubilization of atmospheric carbon
dioxide (CO2) as minerals weather, but the temperature sensitivity of this thermostat is …

Arc-continent collisions in the tropics set Earth's climate state

FA Macdonald, NL Swanson-Hysell, Y Park, L Lisiecki… - Science, 2019 - science.org
On multimillion-year time scales, Earth has experienced warm ice-free and cold glacial
climates, but it is unknown whether transitions between these background climate states …

Emplacement of the Franklin large igneous province and initiation of the Sturtian Snowball Earth

JP Pu, FA Macdonald, MD Schmitz, RH Rainbird… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
During the Cryogenian (720 to 635 Ma ago) Snowball Earth glaciations, ice extended to sea
level near the equator. The cause of this catastrophic failure of Earth's thermostat has been …

Quantifying chemical weathering intensity and trace element release from two contrasting basalt profiles, Deccan Traps, India

MG Babechuk, M Widdowson, BS Kamber - Chemical Geology, 2014 - Elsevier
Weathering profiles developed on basalt substrate contain information relevant to climate,
atmospheric composition and evolution, nutrient release into the hydrosphere, and …

Continental flood basalt weathering as a trigger for Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth

GM Cox, GP Halverson, RK Stevenson… - Earth and Planetary …, 2016 - Elsevier
Atmospheric CO 2 levels and global climate are regulated on geological timescales by the
silicate weathering feedback. However, this thermostat has failed multiple times in Earth's …