Terrestrial ecosystems play a critical role in regulating Earth’s climate by removing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the ...

The IAEA Environment Laboratories apply nuclear and isotopic techniques to better understand the carbon cycle, to evaluate the ocean’s ... Through one of the primary carbon storage mechanisms, the ...

New research by the UK's National Oceanography Centre reveals hidden ocean processes and challenges the role of diatoms in ...

In a paper published in National Science Review, Prof. Xu proposes a new term "viral aggregation" to more accurately describe ...

Phytoplankton have been essential Earth life for over 35 billion years. Through photosynthesis, they consume carbon dioxide ...

Carbon cycle–climate feedbacks are expected to ... up in larger biomass pools may diminish productivity 5. Furthermore, biological nitrogen fixation, reallocation of nitrogen between vegetation ...

The copepods’s particular feeding and migration cycle could find a less ... Controlled Conditions The ocean’s biological pump naturally transports carbon from the surface to the deep sea ...

In other words, the methodology fails to incentivize the use of renewable materials of biological origin ... CO2 burden at the end of the life cycle. But only for the incineration of fossil-based and ...

A new UK National Oceanography Centre (NOC)-led study has put a major question mark over the role a unique group of tiny ...

Today’s petition from the Center for Biological Diversity ... ecosystems and reduces the forest’s ability to sequester and store carbon. “Trees in all stages of the life cycle are essential for ...