Our concept of a 'boundless carbon cycle' would encourage policymakers to better appreciate the couplings between land and water and between the hydrological cycle and the carbon cycle.

These land-based water bodies bury, cycle and emit significant sums of carbon. A large amount of the carbon taken up by terrestrial systems ends up in inland waters, where it can be buried in ...

The relationship between topography and the terrestrial water cycle has been documented for thousands of years, yet there is ...

But that system — called the hydrological cycle — is speeding ... can dump massive amounts of water in a short time. READ MORE: When it comes to sucking up carbon emissions, ‘the ocean ...

Seagrasses and phytoplankton near the ocean’s surface form the base of the aquatic food chain as they ... interact sheds light on Earth’s carbon cycle. Carbon, a chemical element, is found ...