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.

Only the hardy carbon-rich asteroids make it to Earth, after surviving the Sun’s heat and the fiery burnup that occurs when ...

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 ...

Plants store carbon in two primary forms: starch and triacylglycerols (TAGs). Starch is mainly stored in chloroplasts in ...

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 ...

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).