as part of what is called ‘the global carbon cycle.’ A change in any of these fluxes could have wide-ranging impacts on ecosystems and our climate. The IAEA Environment Laboratories apply nuclear and ...

Indeed, the fossil fuels we use to power our world today are the ancient remains of once-living organisms, and they provide a dramatic example of this cycle at work. The carbon cycle would not be ...

From time to time, when Earth's tectonic plates shift, the planet emits a long, slow belch of carbon dioxide. In a new ...

Carbon cycle–climate feedbacks are expected to ... ecological processes on the size of the terrestrial carbon sink. For example, anthropogenic nitrogen deposition, which is not considered ...

In reality, the Amazon, for example, has huge spatial variability in terms of its carbon sink capacity. When droughts occur, ...

The principles of chemical oceanography provide insight into the processes regulating the marine carbon cycle. The text offers a background in chemical oceanography and a description of how chemical ...