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 ...

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 ...

Most people believe rainforests are the lungs of our planet, pumping out vast amounts of the oxygen we breathe. This compelling image has shaped environmental campaigns and political speeches for ...

One mechanism by which the ocean uptakes carbon dioxide is through the biological carbon fixation and its subsequent transport to the deep ocean, a process known as the biological carbon pump.

Some periods in Earth history are so different from our own that they may as well belong to another planet. Many people are interested in the age of dinosaurs, or the Ice Ages, but it is an ...

Deep-sea sponge grounds are habitat-forming benthic communities characterized by high biomass and structural complexity. Despite their ecological significance, their role for the deep-sea environment ...

Recent studies and warnings from NASA have sparked global concern about the long-term sustainability of Earth’s oxygen supply. The implications of a diminishing oxygen reserve are profound, ...

To mitigate global climate change, emissions of the primary culprit, carbon dioxide, must be drastically reduced. A newly developed process helps solve this problem: CO 2 is directly split ...

Scientists recently discovered that the giant 'conveyer belt' currents that push star-forged material out of our galaxy and pull it back in can also transport carbon atoms. That means that a good deal ...