Overestimated nitrogen availability has led climate models to exaggerate how much plant growth can offset rising CO2 levels. Rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are a major driver of ...

Soils do more than store carbon from plant residues. Beneath our feet, vast communities of microbes quietly pull carbon dioxide from the air and convert it into organic matter, helping regulate ...

Natural biological systems cannot efficiently convert waste CO₂ or its derivatives into useful building-block chemicals at a scale that can keep pace with rising atmospheric carbon. Engineer a fully ...

Soil microbes remove carbon from the atmosphere and store it underground, revealing an overlooked pathway for storage in ...

Researchers at the MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology have designed and constructed a new synthetic CO 2-fixation pathway, the so-called THETA cycle. “Bringing parts of the THETA cycle into living cells ...

Researchers have uncovered surprising evidence that the deep ocean’s carbon-fixing engine works very differently than long assumed. While ammonia-oxidizing archaea were thought to dominate carbon ...

For enhancing flavors, the production of dyes, pharmaceutical products and bio polyesters—succinic acid is a versatile platform chemical. A team led by Elke Nevoigt, Professor of Molecular ...

Scientists could never square theory with data on how certain organisms fixed carbon. Turns out they were asking the wrong ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

Humanity continuously emits greenhouse gases and thereby worsens global warming. Increasing research efforts go into developing strategies to convert these gases, such as carbon dioxide (CO2), into ...

Rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO 2) represent an urgent global issue, with communities already experiencing more extreme weather because of a changing climate. One strategy that ...

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 66, No. 7 (July 2021), pp. 2855-2867 (13 pages) Dinitrogen (N₂) fixation is a major source of bioavailable nitrogen to oligotrophic ocean communities. Yet, we have ...