Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are known to be contaminants originating in industrial processes and materials, as well as a reason for substandard indoor air, but they are also formed in nature, ...

(A) Photosynthesis in land plants fixes atmospheric CO2 (inorganic carbon) as organic carbon, which is either stored as plant biomass or in soil, or is decomposed back to CO2 through plant and ...

A study from the U.S. Geological Survey found the ecosystems on California's public lands are losing the carbon they've ...

This research has been underway since 2006, and has been sponsored by NASA’s Carbon Cycle Science Program, Carbon Monitoring System (CMS), NASA Applied Sciences Program, and the US Joint Fire Science ...

The study highlights the urgent need to safeguard global tropical wetlands from human impact. Complex organisms, thousands of ...

HKUST researchers discovered how CO2 reacts in supercritical water, identifying pyrocarbonate ions as key intermediates.

United States Carbon Cycle Science Program; member of the Climate Societal Benefit Area team, the 2nd national Earth Observations Assessment; member of the Global Forest Expert Panel of FAO on ...

Microbes in Peru’s peatlands regulate carbon cycle and influence climate Amazonian microbes could either mitigate or ...

Caption To improve the estimation accuracy of the terrestrial carbon cycle, it is often necessary to integrate atmospheric carbon cycle models and observations (top-down) and terrestrial carbon ...

The 'boundless carbon cycle' would also promote the scientific ... in IPCC Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. (eds Solomon, S. et al.) (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007).

a carbon cycle researcher with Carnegie Science, a nonprofit research institute. But it’s not so simple, she said, because “we’re digging up carbon that hasn’t been in circulation for ...

Dead organisms are broken down into smaller pieces by the process of decay. Organisms such as earthworms are involved in this process.