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Most Carbon-Rich Asteroids Never Make It to Earthβand Now We Know Why

A study of thousands of space rocks may explain why a common type in space is so uncommon on our planet.
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- Webb Telescope Captures First Direct Evidence of Carbon Dioxide on an Exoplanet
Webb Telescope Captures First Direct Evidence of Carbon Dioxide on an Exoplanet

A system 130 light-years away contains a gas integral to life processes on Earth.
Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 team steers toward nature-based carbon credits
The Mercedes-AMG Petronas team is buying 5,500 metric tons worth of carbon credits from Chestnut Carbon.
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Chestnut Carbon gets $160M to turn old farms into forests
The company buys marginal and degraded farmland, plants them with native trees, and harvests the resulting carbon credits.
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- Microsoft signs massive carbon credit deal with reforestation startup Chestnut Carbon
Microsoft signs massive carbon credit deal with reforestation startup Chestnut Carbon
The 25-year deal would enable Chestnut Carbon to reforest 60,000 acres of land across Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas.
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- Beautifully Detailed Webb Image Shows βShelledβ Star on the Verge of Death
Beautifully Detailed Webb Image Shows βShelledβ Star on the Verge of Death

A star system 5,000 light-years from Earth, surrounded by layers of dust, could help scientists better understand the final stages of stellar life.
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- Your Bodyβs Carbon Likely Took an Intergalactic Detour Before Reaching Earth
Your Bodyβs Carbon Likely Took an Intergalactic Detour Before Reaching Earth

The circumgalactic medium, a vast gaseous halo surrounding galaxies, could be crucial to the evolution of star-forming galaxies like our own.
Perplexity acquires Carbon to connect AI search to your work files
Perplexity acquired a small Seattle-based startup called Carbon which specializes in connecting AI systems to external data sources, the companies announced on Wednesday. CEO Aravind Srinivasan says this will allow Perplexity to search through your files and work messages in Notion, Google Docs, Slack, and other enterprise applications sometime in early 2025. Carbon specializes in [β¦]
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Heirloom Carbon raises $150M to remove CO2 from the air using rocks
The startup is betting that by building bigger and capturing more carbon, it can bring down the cost to remove each metric ton of CO2.
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