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Washington, May 22: Scientists have determined that the Earth’s crust might hold a lethal cache of carbon, which could ultimately determine the fate of our planet’s atmosphere.

Carbon is locked away down in the Earth’s crust in magma and old carbonate rocks buried by plate tectonics, in fossil fuels like coal and oil, and in ice lattices beneath the ocean bed.

It has long been assumed that this carbon was largely cut off from the surface, and could safely be ignored when analyzing the effect of greenhouse gases on climate.

But now, it seems there may be much more “deep carbon” ready to spew out than we thought, according to the conclusion of a meeting at the Carnegie institution’s Geophysical Laboratory in Washington DC.

Washington, May 22: Astronomers have observed the death of a star for the first time in the form of a stellar explosion, which is also the first detection of the birth of a supernova.

Washington, May 22: A 290 million year old fossil, dubbed as “Frog-amander”, has been described by scientists as possibly being an evolutionary missing link in the amphibian family tree.

Washington, May 22: The US has said that it was closely monitoring the situation in Pakistan’s tribal areas where the new PPP-led government had inked a “peace pact” with the Pro-Taliban militants,