Ancient Earth may have birthed islands of life

A non-profit organization building on research from Yale’s Noah Planavsky has won the $50 million grand prize from the XPRIZE Carbon Removal international competition.

Matthew Eisaman, a global expert in the field of natural carbon capture, was remembered as a pioneering scientist and a valued colleague and mentor.

A new study finds that ocean acidity may have prevented life on Earth from developing for the planet’s first 500 million years.