Your carrot plant sends the sugar it makes down a tube called the phloem, all the way to the root. It gets stored in plant cells there. When winter comes, your carrot plant will enter a resting stage.

Global warming poses a significant threat to human society. Rapid and substantial reductions in greenhouse gas emissions are ...

The western U.S., particularly the Southwest, has experienced a notable increase in record-breaking high temperatures over recent decades, with recurring drought and heatwaves. These conditions have ...

Carbon, a building block of life, is constantly moving through different environmental compartments such as biota, the atmosphere, the ocean, soil and sediment, as part of what is called ‘the global ...

Photosynthesis in plants and a few bacteria is responsible for feeding nearly all life on Earth. It allows energy from the Sun to be converted into a storable form, usually glucose, which plants use ...

Photosynthesis can take place in nature even at extremely low light levels. This is the result of a study that investigated the development of Arctic microalgae at the end of the polar night. The ...

Carbon sustains life—but excess emissions are driving climate change. WWF is working to restore balance and protect our ...

Nissan Motor Co has developed photon upconversion (UC) solid materials with outstanding performance that can improve the efficiency of artificial photosynthesis. Nissan made the breakthrough in ...

(A) Hourly change in LUE (expressed as a percentage) during the heatwave compared to normal years. (B) Probability distribution of diurnal centroid change in response to daily LUE decrease for three ...