These usable forms of energy are carbon-based. A primary example of this involves the energy currency in ecosystems, which is carbon. The amount and form of carbon present in different ecosystem ...

The study shows that the petrographic, geochemical and spectroscopic features in the graphite (the crystalline form of carbon ... rocks," was published in Nature Communications.

Graphyne is a crystalline form of carbon that is distinct from both diamond and graphite. Unlike diamond, where each atom possesses four immediate neighbors, or graphite, where each atom has three ...

Soil C results both directly from growth and death of plant roots, as well as indirectly from the transfer of carbon-enriched compounds from roots to soil microbes. For example, many plants form ...

In Carbon: The Unauthorized Biography, a documentary from The Nature of Things ... the element sparked the earliest life forms and rode the journey of evolution. And in plants, together with ...

Starch and oils are known as storehouses of carbon in plants. However, the way in which carbon resources are allocated during metabolism in plants remained unknown. Now, however, using a forward ...

Representing just 3% of the Earth's land surface, peatlands contain over 30% of the carbon retained in soils in the form of fossilized ... peatlands under warming, Nature Climate Change (2025).