
Uncovering Role of Symbiotic Fungi in Soil Carbon Storage
Mycorrhizae inhabiting plant roots have major impact on carbon release rates.
Mycorrhizae inhabiting plant roots have major impact on carbon release rates.
Researchers count the number of radioactive krypton-81 atoms remaining in ice using a laser trap.
Worms produce tiny clumps of soil that keep carbon taken in by plants from rapidly degrading and re-entering the environment.
Discovery of a new bonding mechanism has enabled the facile fabrication of arrays of semiconductor microstructures.
Results show absorption properties of brown carbon depend more on burn conditions than fuel type, providing important information to model climates.
New, rapid, and low-cost approach can be applied to many species.
Modeling experiments assess impacts of key melting behavior.
Opportunities emerge for using microbes to convert the gas to biofuels and other products.
Altered stop codon allows E. coli strain to incorporate nonstandard amino acids.
Combining the strengths of existing techniques, new algorithm could help improve climate models.
Climate model comparisons show wetlands remain a big challenge.
2010 oil spill reduced diversity, but some species were unaffected.