(A) Photosynthesis in land plants fixes atmospheric CO2 (inorganic carbon) as organic carbon, which is either stored as plant biomass or in soil, or is decomposed back to CO2 through plant and ...

This is Earth's major inorganic carbon cycle, and it shifts Earth's atmospheric CO 2 over time scales of millions of years. But as the sun gets 10 percent brighter every billion years, it ...

Various fungi and prokaryotes then decompose the tissue and release inorganic ... often a change in carbon storage, thus impacting more processes than just the nitrogen cycle.

The IAEA Environment Laboratories apply nuclear and isotopic techniques to better understand the carbon cycle, to evaluate the ocean’s ... where it is recycled back into inorganic carbon and stored, ...