Soil stores more carbon than Earth's atmosphere and plants combined, which makes the speed of soil carbon's decomposition an important variable in models used to predict changes to our climate.

New research from Lake Taihu, China, sheds light on a critical but often overlooked aspect of aquatic ecosystems: how the presence of algae and the evenness of aquatic plant species dramatically ...

Organic carbon decomposition in soil varies significantly and in regional patterns, driven in part by factors such as soil minerals and microbial properties that have been underrepresented in carbon ...