The Cannondale Synapse and the Trek Domane are held in the highest regard when it comes to the endurance road bike market. But which bike is best? Sam Gupta and Simon Smythe drill down into the ...

Soil carbon storage is a vital ecosystem service, resulting from interactions of ecological processes. Human activities affecting these processes can lead to carbon loss or improved storage.

When it comes to energy policies, carbon capture, utilization and sequestration is one of the most controversial. The technology – where carbon is captured from industrial processes or from the ...

Carbon dioxide sinks Since 1750, continuously increasing anthropogenic CO 2 emissions and land-use change have perturbed the natural carbon cycle. Of the 9.1 Pg C yr −1 (1 Pg C = 1 petagram or ...

Editor’s note: This is part of a series called “The Day Tomorrow Began,” which explores the history of breakthroughs at UChicago. Learn more here. Radiocarbon dating, or carbon-14 dating, is a ...

Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest multimedia news provider, reaching billions of people worldwide every day. Reuters provides business, financial ...

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 UEFA Carbon Footprint Calculator is an online tool to help anyone involved in football calculate, understand and therefore act on their emissions related to the game. The tool has been ...

People, objects and even countries all have a carbon footprint. A carbon footprint is a number, often measured in tonnes, kilograms, or grams, that represents the total amount of carbon dioxide ...

Dead organisms are broken down into smaller pieces by the process of decay. Organisms such as earthworms are involved in this process.

Carbon dioxide (CO 2) comes from both natural sources (including volcanoes, the breath of animals and plant decay) and human sources (primarily the burning of fossils fuels like coal, oil and natural ...