News tagged with carbon cycle
Related topics: carbon dioxide , climate change , carbon , atmospheric carbon dioxide
Little-known marine decomposers attract the attention of genome sequencers
The Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute (JGI) announced today that they will sequence the genomes of four species of labyrinthulomycetes. These little-known marine species were selected for sequencing ...
Jun 29, 2009 |
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Study of agricultural watersheds and carbon losses
Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) losses from tile drains are an underquantified portion of the terrestrial carbon cycle. This is particularly important in the eastern corn belt where tile drainage dominates the agricultural ...
Jun 19, 2009 |
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The rise of oxygen caused Earth's earliest ice age
(PhysOrg.com) -- Geologists may have uncovered the answer to an age-old question - an ice-age-old question, that is. It appears that Earth's earliest ice ages may have been due to the rise of oxygen in Earth's ...
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May 07, 2009 |
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New images of marine microbe illuminate carbon and nitrogen fixation
Trichodesmium is unusual among marine microbes because it both "breathes" carbon dioxide like plants, while also taking nitrogen gas from the air and "fixing" it into a fertilizer of the seas.
Mar 30, 2009 |
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Amazon carbon sink threatened by drought
The Amazon is surprisingly sensitive to drought, according to new research conducted throughout the world's largest tropical forest. The 30-year study, published today in Science, provides the first solid evidence that d ...
Mar 05, 2009 |
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Study finds hemlock trees dying rapidly, affecting forest carbon cycle
New research by U.S. Forest Service Southern Research Station (SRS) scientists and partners suggests the hemlock woolly adelgid is killing hemlock trees faster than expected in the southern Appalachians and rapidly altering ...
Feb 26, 2009 |
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NASA Mission to Help Unravel Key Carbon, Climate Mysteries
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's first spacecraft dedicated to studying atmospheric carbon dioxide is in final preparations for a Feb. 23 launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Carbon dioxide is the leading ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 29, 2009 |
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Fish guts explain marine carbon cycle mystery
Research published today reveals the major influence of fish on maintaining the delicate pH balance of our oceans, vital for the health of coral reefs and other marine life.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 15, 2009 |
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