Nature's carbon-capturing machines are working overtime. Plants worldwide are absorbing about 31% more carbon dioxide than scientists previously estimated, according to research published in Nature.

These cycles utilize carbon dioxide in a supercritical state ... technology's suitability for high-temperature solar thermal power plants, compact nuclear reactors, and coal-fired power plants ...

A study from the U.S. Geological Survey found the ecosystems on California's public lands are losing the carbon they've ...

While a single plant is capable of fixing inorganic carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air, the entire ecosystem surrounding the ...

For flowering plants, this cycle begins with a seed ... They soak up sunlight and carbon dioxide from the air. This produces food for the plant. We call this ‘Photosynthesis’.

This process, called photosynthesis, is essential to the global carbon cycle ... green plants, phytoplankton, and cyanobacteria. During the process of photosynthesis, cells use carbon dioxide ...

The volcanic activity emits carbon dioxide that replaces that taken ... pairs they couple global-mean models of plant productivity, the carbon cycle, and climate to determine the eventual ...

Crops, like all plants, draw carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere during ... why we need to rethink the carbon cycle. He says it is a misunderstanding to think of carbon as pollution ...

Carbon, a building block of life, is constantly moving through different environmental compartments such as biota, the atmosphere, the ocean, soil and sediment, as part of what is called ‘the global ...

Animals feed on plants, passing the carbon compounds along the food chain. Most carbon they consume is exhaled as carbon dioxide during respiration. The animals and plants eventually die.

An industrial-scale incinerator generating electricity by burning garbage is the largest producer of greenhouse gases ...

Carbon dioxide also dissolves ... sheds light on Earth’s carbon cycle. Carbon, a chemical element, is found in all organic matter on Earth, from the plants and animals alive today to fossil ...