A new process-based model reveals that termites process roughly 1,569 teragrams of carbon per year, making them a substantial ...

New MBARI research has revealed that the sea cucumber Pelagothuria natatrix plays an important and unexpected role in the ...

On the surface, the arid expanses of the Mojave Desert may seem inhospitable and largely removed from the global carbon cycle. But beneath the surface, its mineral-rich soils are running a carbon ...

When soil microbes eat plant matter, the digested food follows one of two pathways. Either the microbe uses the food to build its own body, or it respires its meal as carbon dioxide (CO 2) into the ...

Satellite carbon dioxide observations detect more carbon-cycle extremes than ground stations but still miss many events and underestimate their magnitude.

A new study of Taiwan's tectonically active Beinan River reveals that planktonic microbial metabolism measurably contributes ...

The winter polar caps are therefore closely connected to the Martian atmosphere. In the polar night, carbon dioxide can condense directly onto the surface, while atmospheric precipitation can produce ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A lone researcher may have figured out how Mars was able to support rivers and seas even after the planet had begun to grow cold ...

Mars has not always been a seemingly lifeless red desert. We have evidence that billions of years ago it had a warm, habitable climate with liquid water in lakes and flowing rivers, which is somewhat ...