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Biogeochemistry
Biogeochemistry: the scientific discipline that involves the study of the chemical, physical, geological, and biological processes and reactions that govern the composition of the natural environment (including the biosphere, the cryosphere, the hydrosphere, the pedosphere, the atmosphere, and the lithosphere).In particular, biogeochemistry is the study of the cycles of chemical elements, such as carbon and nitrogen, and their interactions with and incorporation into living things transported through earth scale biological systems in space through time.
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APR 11, 2025Earth & The Environment
The Earth's Critical Zone encompasses our air, water, and earth, all of the organisms within them, and the processes tha ...Written By: Carmen LeitchOCT 09, 2024Earth & The Environment
Scientists have identified the likely geological and environmental conditions that fostered the development of life as w ...Written By: Carmen LeitchOCT 04, 2024Earth & The Environment
Geologists divide time into epochs or series, with subdivisions, according to major variations in rock sequences. They m ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 30, 2024Earth & The Environment
Microscopic marine fossils can reveal more about the climate of the ancient past; what we are experiencing now; and what ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 26, 2024Cell & Molecular Biology
What is the last common ancestor of all plants and animals? Where did complex life come from and when? Scientists have b ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 08, 2023Microbiology
The Amazon rainforest has been through periods of serious drought in recent years, some of which have been accompanied b ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 31, 2023Earth & The Environment
Plastics have become a major problem, particularly when it comes to single-use, disposable plastics that are commonly us ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 01, 2023Cell & Molecular Biology
Researchers were able to take advantage of "an incredibly unique opportunity" to study the microbial life that rapidly c ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 28, 2022Cell & Molecular Biology
Viruses can infect cells, and take them over to produce more viruses. But can viruses serve as a source of nutrition? It ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 05, 2022Cell & Molecular Biology
Scientists have long sought to determine how life first arose on our planet, and finding an answer to that question coul ...Written By: Carmen LeitchOCT 31, 2021Space & Astronomy
Water can assume an astonishing array of conformations. It can be a liquid, vapor, or different kinds of solids. Scienti ...Written By: Carmen LeitchOCT 12, 2021Microbiology
The atmospheric levels of methane, which is known to be a potent greenhouse gas, have been steadily increasing for many ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 23, 2021Microbiology
Microbes can be used like little factories to churn out important or valuable chemicals. Now researchers are learning ho ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 18, 2021Genetics & Genomics
Our environment is full of DNA molecules. While researchers have become concerned about DNA waste material that's ac ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 23, 2021Microbiology
Oil drums full of old diesel fuel have accumulated and are contaminating soil at military outposts in Greenland that are ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 07, 2020Microbiology
There are some very extreme environments on our planet, and it seems that microbes have been able to colonize many of th ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAR 08, 2020Earth & The Environment
A study published recently in Global Biogeochemical Cycles details the mysterious depths of Antarctica’s subg ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanOCT 16, 2019Earth & The Environment
This summer, the Greenland Ice Sheet experienced a significant melting event not seen since 2002, mainly due to the heat ...Written By: Tiffany DazetOCT 14, 2019Cell & Molecular Biology
Around 4 billion years ago, scientists think that life arose, and they have been trying to learn more about how that hap ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 22, 2019Space & Astronomy
Planetary scientists have been in search of potentially habitable worlds for years, and perhaps one of the most promisin ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 19, 2019Chemistry & Physics
Long before Earth became a hotbed for a diversity of life forms, its atmosphere had almost no oxygen. Thanks to the emer ...Written By: Daniel DuanJUL 01, 2019Earth & The Environment
Sometimes it is extremely difficult to quantify ecosystem services, such as how much reforestation is worth in terms of ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUN 30, 2019Space & Astronomy
Researchers have been teasing the concept of sending a life-sniffing drone to Saturn’s moon Titan for what seems l ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 23, 2019Space & Astronomy
When planetary scientists deploy space missions to explore other worlds in search of alien life, they often look for sig ...Written By: Anthony Bouchard
APR 11, 2025
Earth & The Environment
The Earth's Critical Zone encompasses our air, water, and earth, all of the organisms within them, and the processes tha
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 09, 2024
Earth & The Environment
Scientists have identified the likely geological and environmental conditions that fostered the development of life as w
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 04, 2024
Earth & The Environment
Geologists divide time into epochs or series, with subdivisions, according to major variations in rock sequences. They m
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 30, 2024
Earth & The Environment
Microscopic marine fossils can reveal more about the climate of the ancient past; what we are experiencing now; and what
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 26, 2024
Cell & Molecular Biology
What is the last common ancestor of all plants and animals? Where did complex life come from and when? Scientists have b
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 08, 2023
Microbiology
The Amazon rainforest has been through periods of serious drought in recent years, some of which have been accompanied b
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 31, 2023
Earth & The Environment
Plastics have become a major problem, particularly when it comes to single-use, disposable plastics that are commonly us
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 01, 2023
Cell & Molecular Biology
Researchers were able to take advantage of "an incredibly unique opportunity" to study the microbial life that rapidly c
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 28, 2022
Cell & Molecular Biology
Viruses can infect cells, and take them over to produce more viruses. But can viruses serve as a source of nutrition? It
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 05, 2022
Cell & Molecular Biology
Scientists have long sought to determine how life first arose on our planet, and finding an answer to that question coul
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 31, 2021
Space & Astronomy
Water can assume an astonishing array of conformations. It can be a liquid, vapor, or different kinds of solids. Scienti
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 12, 2021
Microbiology
The atmospheric levels of methane, which is known to be a potent greenhouse gas, have been steadily increasing for many
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 23, 2021
Microbiology
Microbes can be used like little factories to churn out important or valuable chemicals. Now researchers are learning ho
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 18, 2021
Genetics & Genomics
Our environment is full of DNA molecules. While researchers have become concerned about DNA waste material that's ac
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 23, 2021
Microbiology
Oil drums full of old diesel fuel have accumulated and are contaminating soil at military outposts in Greenland that are
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 07, 2020
Microbiology
There are some very extreme environments on our planet, and it seems that microbes have been able to colonize many of th
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 08, 2020
Earth & The Environment
A study published recently in Global Biogeochemical Cycles details the mysterious depths of Antarctica’s subg
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
OCT 16, 2019
Earth & The Environment
This summer, the Greenland Ice Sheet experienced a significant melting event not seen since 2002, mainly due to the heat
...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet
OCT 14, 2019
Cell & Molecular Biology
Around 4 billion years ago, scientists think that life arose, and they have been trying to learn more about how that hap
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 22, 2019
Space & Astronomy
Planetary scientists have been in search of potentially habitable worlds for years, and perhaps one of the most promisin
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 19, 2019
Chemistry & Physics
Long before Earth became a hotbed for a diversity of life forms, its atmosphere had almost no oxygen. Thanks to the emer
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
JUL 01, 2019
Earth & The Environment
Sometimes it is extremely difficult to quantify ecosystem services, such as how much reforestation is worth in terms of
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUN 30, 2019
Space & Astronomy
Researchers have been teasing the concept of sending a life-sniffing drone to Saturn’s moon Titan for what seems l
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 23, 2019
Space & Astronomy
When planetary scientists deploy space missions to explore other worlds in search of alien life, they often look for sig
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard