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, ...
Artificial light at night is causing ecosystems to release more carbon into the atmosphere, according to new research that ...
Researchers at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography have created a more accurate model of global carbon cycling. The model better accounts for the contributions of Earth’s terrestrial ...
A team led by LMU researchers shows why CO₂ fluxes from land use are so difficult to quantify—and how they can be estimated ...
It wasn’t a glitzy or dung-free task by any stretch of the imagination. Wearing gloves, University of Miami marine biologist Martin Grosell and his two colleagues sifted through hundreds of gallons of ...
A new paper published in Biological Reviews has revealed the potential of desert ecosystems in the global fight against ...
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