Carbon, a building block of life, is constantly moving through different environmental compartments such as biota, the atmosphere, the ocean, soil and sediment, as part of what is called ‘the global ...

The carbon cycle is the biogeochemical cycle focused on carbon and how it is sequestered in and moves between different reservoirs in the Earth system. Microbial activity in marine sediment acts ...

The carbon cycle would not be possible without photosynthesis ... in the world's oceans are thought to produce between one-third and one-half of atmospheric oxygen on Earth.

To register your interest please contact collegesales@cambridge.org providing details of the course you are teaching. The principles of chemical oceanography provide insight into the processes ...

Animals feed on plants, passing the carbon compounds along the food chain. Most carbon they consume is exhaled as carbon dioxide during respiration. The animals and plants eventually die.

Among the many things global warming will be melting this century—sea ice, land glaciers and tourist businesses in seaside towns across the world—is permafrost. Lying underneath 15% of the northern ...

Psychopharmacol Bull 19:594-599, 1983. Smythies JR, Alarcon RD, Bancroft AJ, et al: Role of the one-carbon cycle in neuropsychiatry, in Borchardt R, Creveling C, Ueland P (eds): Biological ...

The marine chemist is an expert in biogeochemical seabed processes and lead author of the new study on the seagrass carbon cycle. "However, as seagrass meadows are particularly widespread in warm ...