Carbon dioxide (CO₂) pollution drives climate change, warming the planet and threatening human survival. Plants naturally ...

meaning it is a key player in Earth’s natural carbon cycle,” commented study co-author and University of Oxford geochemist Robert Hilton. They also compared how much carbon dioxide could be ...

Autotrophs participate in the carbon cycle by fixing carbon dioxide to produce the biomass that all other organisms use for life. Four autotrophic carbon-fixation pathways were already known and ...

Inland waters, such as lakes, reservoirs, wetlands and rivers, occupy only a small fraction of the Earths' surface, but have a disproportionate effect on the global carbon cycle. These land-based ...