The carbon/oxygen cycle is fundamental to life on Earth, intricately linking trees, plants, oceans, and atmospheric gases. This cycle ensures a balance between carbon dioxide (CO₂) and oxygen (O₂), ...

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 ...

The ocean is a vast and complex web of intertwined systems. Chemistry, currents, temperature and nutrients all ebb and flow, each feeding back into the others. A multinational research team, led by UC ...

In this activity, students simulate a molecule of carbon’s movement through various locations in the carbon cycle, before acting out different human impact scenarios. I have collaborated on ...

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 ...

Plants do not rely only on their leaves to feed on carbon dioxide. A new study in Carbon Research reveals that maize roots ...