The ocean is a vast and complex web of intertwined systems. Chemistry, currents, temperature and nutrients all ebb and flow, each feeding back into the others. A multinational research team, led by UC ...

A new study suggests that a small fraction of marine microorganisms are responsible for most of the consumption of oxygen and release of carbon dioxide in the ocean. This surprising discovery came ...

Earth’s oxygen reservoir. The biological mechanism that produces oxygen-splitting water molecules during the light-dependent stage of photosynthesis.

The current climate crisis underlines that carbon cycle perturbations can cause significant climate change. New research reveals how carbon cycle and global climate have been interacting throughout ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. - Extensive sea ice covered the world's oceans during the last ice age, which prevented oxygen from penetrating into the deep ocean waters, complicating the relationship between oxygen ...

Most people believe rainforests are the lungs of our planet, pumping out vast amounts of the oxygen we breathe. This compelling image has shaped environmental campaigns and political speeches for ...

Carbon is found all around the Earth, including in our bodies. While most of the carbon can be found in the geosphere, it is also found in all living things, soil, in the ocean, and in the atmosphere.

The Lomagundi-Jatuli event, which occurred more than two billion years ago, followed the Great Oxygenation Event and was marked by a significant change in the isotopic composition of carbon. Its cause ...

We astronomers love carbon. Though nowadays it gets unrelenting bad press thanks to climate change, carbon is so essential to life that it grabs attention wherever we detect it. Who doesn’t perk up ...