Decomposition of dead leaves in Veluwe forests has declined by tens of percent since the turn of the century. Meteorologists ...

Organic carbon decomposition in soil varies significantly and in regional patterns, driven in part by factors such as soil minerals and microbial properties that have been underrepresented in carbon ...

Soil stores more carbon than Earth's atmosphere and plants combined, which makes the speed of soil carbon's decomposition an important variable in models used to predict changes to our climate.

New research from Lake Taihu, China, sheds light on a critical but often overlooked aspect of aquatic ecosystems: how the ...