The carbon cycle is the biogeochemical cycle focused on carbon and how it is sequestered in and moves between different reservoirs in the Earth system. The efficiency with which plants use carbon ...

Research shows abyssal seafloor processes are crucial for trace metal cycling, influencing ocean chemistry and enhancing our ...

Pioneer Labs, a non-profit research organization, is focused on engineering microbes, specifically extremophiles, to survive ...

Nickel mining activities on the land of Raja Ampat have the potential to produce waste runoff that pollutes the waters.

Research ships rarely brave the Greenland Sea in winter. Early this year, scientists ventured into the ice-covered waters to ...

Wildfires profoundly influence the unseen microbial world within our waters, directly impacting water quality and ecosystem health, according to a study presented at ASM Microbe 2025.

Water security across the Rio Grande and Colorado River basins faces a threat that is “no longer temporary but systemic,” ...

Discover how wastewater treatment plants are revolutionizing energy generation by converting methane into renewable natural ...

The stable isotope composition of different sulfur species in the seabed provides important information about the current and past biogeochemical sulfur cycle. Sulfur has four naturally occurring ...

Climate change is not in the near future; it is here, in the melting glaciers and the drying rivers. While we review what has ...

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