In the grand theater of planetary climate, Earth has always played a balancing act, teetering between fire and ice, warmth ...

Researchers at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography have created a more accurate model of global carbon cycling. The model better accounts for the contributions of Earth’s terrestrial ...

What processes have regulated climate over the course of Earth’s history? Researchers are addressing this question in the ...

UC Riverside researchers have discovered a piece that was missing in previous descriptions of the way Earth recycles its ...

UC Riverside researchers reveal how the planet is on track to cool to extreme temperatures within 100,000 years due to a dysfunctional "feedback loop" of carbon burial.

It creates a positive feedback loop: the recycled nutrients fuel even more plankton growth, which removes more oxygen, leading to more nutrient recycling. The overall effect is the plankton’s ...

Four teams of scientists will receive up to $45 million over five years for research that advances human understanding of the ...

Mesopelagic fish, long overlooked in ocean chemistry, are now proven to excrete carbonate minerals much like their shallow-water counterparts—despite living in dark, high-pressure depths. Using the ...

The speed at which deadwood decomposes in forests depends on the climate as well as on fungi and insects. An international research team has now determined the annual contribution made by deadwood to ...