This cycle therefore steadily speeds up oxygen production over the passage of Earth’s history. The research, which started whilst Dr Alcott was a Hutchinson Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University in ...

Scientists have uncovered a missing feedback in Earth’s carbon cycle that could cause global warming to overshoot into an ice ...

Enzymes digest the organic matter outside their cells. This is known as extracellular digestion as it happens outside the cells. The products of digestion are absorbed by the bacteria and fungi. Place ...

Plankton play a central role in a climate process that scientists now say may behave more aggressively than once thought. As ...

Over 300 million years ago, Earth experienced powerful bursts of carbon dioxide from natural sources—like massive volcanic eruptions—that triggered dramatic drops in ocean oxygen levels. These ancient ...

The gas is an essential part of life on Earth—but right now we have too much of a good thing. Cineca in Bologna, Italy, is a computing center with one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe.

Soils do more than store carbon from plant residues. Beneath our feet, vast communities of microbes quietly pull carbon dioxide from the air and convert it into organic matter, helping regulate ...