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Covers:  geology, oceans, space, climate, education, climate change, paleontology, geoscience, science communication, water
Doesn't Cover: software, consumer gadgets
geosci comm @EarthScope_sci, sometimes do a journalism @ArsTechnica, adjunct faculty @CoconinoCC, find me elsewhere

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Want an oxygen-rich atmosphere? Stuff oxygen’s friends in the mantle.

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By Scott Johnson 
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Want an oxygen-rich atmosphere? Stuff oxygen’s friends in the mantle.

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By Scott Johnson 
| Ars Technica
Getting carbon and sulfur into Earth’s interior may be part of oxygen’s story. Planet Earth has some pretty great qualities going for it. (Negative reviews mostly revolve around the staff and clientele.) Pretty high on the list of positives is a richly oxygenated atmosphere. But that’s something that evolved and built up over a couple billion years, only eventually resulting in a world conducive to animal life like us.
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Running the numbers on a zero-emission way to make cement var abtest_2154702 = new ABTest(2154702, 'click');

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By Scott Johnson 
| Ars Technica
Limestone might not be the only source for Portland cement. A sample of Portland cement made from basalt. A sample of Portland cement made from basalt. Cement production alone currently accounts for about 8 percent of global CO2 emissions, so considerable effort is going into lowering that number. Efficiency can be increased, and energy sources can be swapped for cleaner ones, but a stubborn reality remains: The byproduct of turning limestone into lime during cement production releases CO2 gas.
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