Using this knowledge, the scientists built a unique sophisticated computer model to more accurately chart key changes in the carbon, nutrient and oxygen cycles deep into Earth's history ...

Global heating over this millennium could exceed previous estimates due to carbon cycle feedback loops. This is the ...

Estimates of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from volcanoes may have been significantly underestimated, according to new ...

Terrestrial carbon cycle dynamics remain one of the greatest sources of uncertainty in climate projections, with diverging estimates of ecosystem carbon uptake, affecting the accuracy of Earth system ...

Without it, Earth would just be a lonely ... a teaching.” The new book frames carbon as a flow — a cycle that moves through ...

Most of the carbon absorbed by land over the past three decades has ended up in non-living reservoirs rather than in growing trees and plants, according to a study that challenges previous models of ...

Sulfate-reducing bacteria break down a large proportion of the organic carbon in the oxygen-free zones of Earth, and in the ... microbes in the global carbon cycle and their relevance for the ...

Understanding how key players such as whales, plankton, seagrasses and other forms of sea life interact sheds light on Earth’s carbon cycle. Carbon, a chemical element, is found in all organic ...

The Earth's land surface is dominated by sloping ... Terrestrial sedimentation and the carbon cycle: Coupling weathering and erosion to carbon burial. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 12, 231 ...