In the nitrogen cycle, phytoplankton and other marine plants turn nitrate (NO 3) into organic nitrogen during photosynthesis. The organic nitrogen sinks into the deep ocean, where microbes "eat" the ...

Six of our nine planetary boundaries have now been crossed—and industrial agriculture are the main culprit. That is what a team of scientists under Johan Rockström reported in an article published in ...

The Early Triassic represents a critical interval for ecosystem recovery following the end-Permian mass extinction. This interval was marked by extreme and highly volatile global conditions, including ...

In the food and beverage industry, this universal element plays a particularly important role, as it forms the foundation of ...

What can volcanism on the early Earth teach us about the formation of life on our planet? This is what a recent study published in Nature Communications hopes to address as an international team of ...