Soils store more carbon than the atmosphere and vegetation combined, with soil microorganisms playing the main role. As a result, the global soil ...

The carbon cycle in our oceans is critical to the balance of life in ocean waters and for reducing carbon in the atmosphere, a significant process to curbing climate change or global warming. A study ...

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 ...

Chinese researchers have braved the cold and harsh environment of Antarctica in order to get a unique view of star formation ...

CALGARY, Canada — Mars once breathed carbon in and out just like Earth does today. NASA’s Curiosity rover has uncovered evidence that the Red Planet had its own version of Earth’s carbon cycle, a ...

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, ...

Salt Creek in Death Valley, California. A new analysis reveals that rivers in arid landscapes are helping to soak up more carbon dioxide than previously thought. “Rivers are one of the most uncertain ...