Soils store more carbon than the atmosphere and vegetation combined, with soil microorganisms playing the main role. As a ...
Our planet has experienced dramatic climate shifts throughout its history, oscillating between freezing "icehouse" periods ...
A new global study shows that increasing soil salinity is systematically reshaping the storage and distribution of soil ...
Soils store more carbon than the atmosphere and vegetation combined, with soil microorganisms playing the main role. As a ...
When it comes to diatoms that live in the ocean, new research suggests that photosynthesis is not the only strategy for accumulating carbon. Instead, these single-celled plankton are also building ...
A team in Taiwan has engineered a new way for plants to absorb and use carbon dioxide, potentially reshaping the fight against climate change. By inserting an extra biochemical cycle into a model ...
Tiny plastic particles drifting through the oceans may be quietly weakening one of Earth’s most powerful climate defenses.
Rivers are a primary source of the plastics that clog oceanic ecosystems and contribute to the continent-sized Great Pacific garbage patch. Broken-down plastics cycle through ecosystems, accumulating ...
Climate change is usually associated with changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide, but our planet's surface also plays a major ...