The carbon cycle is a natural process that plays a crucial role in Earth's climate system. However, human activities have ...

Since the 1980s, scientists have known fine roots (< 2 mm) are critical to ecosystem carbon cycling, with research long ...

Researchers at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography have created a more accurate model of global carbon cycling. The model better accounts for the contributions of Earth’s terrestrial ...

UC Riverside researchers have discovered a piece that was missing in previous descriptions of the way Earth recycles its ...

What processes have regulated climate over the course of Earth’s history? Researchers are addressing this question in the ...

UC Riverside researchers reveal how the planet is on track to cool to extreme temperatures within 100,000 years due to a dysfunctional "feedback loop" of carbon burial.

Coccolithophores, tiny planktonic architects of Earth’s climate, capture carbon, produce oxygen, and leave behind geological ...

It creates a positive feedback loop: the recycled nutrients fuel even more plankton growth, which removes more oxygen, leading to more nutrient recycling. The overall effect is the plankton’s ...

The roles microbes play in ecosystems are changing with global warming. Microbes are also affected by infection by viruses, but scientists know relatively little about how these viral infections could ...

Where would carbon-based life be without carbon? There are 118 known chemical elements, but carbon is the fourth most abundant and perhaps the most important to human life. Everywhere you look, ...