Social Media Ideas for Biogeochemistry

Seaweed, Seagrass and Phytoplankton Shape the Ocean’s Iodine Cycle, Review Finds

Iodine is one of those elements that most people encounter only as a grain of salt on the dinner table, yet in the ocean it sits at the crossroads of climate regulation, human nutr...

Nature’s Carbon Cycle with Dr. Ganapathy Shanmugam | Climate Debrief

He explains how desert dust supplies iron and other nutrients that trigger phytoplankton blooms, strengthen the biological carbon pump, and support marine food webs. The post Natur...

2 Billion-Year-Old Rocks Reveal How Life Helped Stabilize Earth’s Atmosphere

Ancient South African rocks reveal how phosphorus recycling may have helped Earth hold onto oxygen more than 2 billion years ago, sustaining conditions that allowed life to thrive....

Field of Environment Science

Lessons In Chemistry — Microbes, Heavy Metals, And Water

Chemistry is politically agnostic. It can give us wondrous new products, like nylon and Dacron, but it can give us destructive products like napalm and Agent Orange. Here are two s...

Free Open-Source Workflow Matches Costly Software in Screening Bauxite Residue’s Climate Footprint

An aluminium industry waste stream that could one day replace scarce cement ingredients has just received a remarkably accessible environmental check-up, and the tool that did it c...

Large Mammals Transform Atlantic Forest Soil Chemistry, Boosting Fertility

In Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, large mammals are doing far more than moving through the trees. Tapirs, peccaries, deer, and agoutis are acting as living agents of soil transformation...

Desert Roots Rewire Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Through Microbes and Minerals

Beneath every plant, the narrow sleeve of soil hugging its roots—the rhizosphere—is one of the most chemically active zones on Earth. Roots leak sugars, organic acids and other com...

Pulling carbon into seawater using engineered bacteria

Synthetically engineered marine bacteria accelerate natural bioweathering with potential for decarbonizing the atmosphere at industrial scales.

How ocean chemistry helped life keep breathing

Scientists have helped solve a longstanding mystery about how Earth remained habitable after oxygen first accumulated in its atmosphere more than 2 billion years ago, providing evi...

Synthetically Engineered Marine Bacteria Could Play Key Role in Decarbonizing the Atmosphere at Industrial Scales

A group of academic researchers genetically engineered Alteromonas macleodii, a widespread marine bacterium, to produce more siderophores, accelerating olivine weathering 2.6-fold...