A nutrient feedback between phosphorus, sulfur and microbes may explain how Earth repeatedly rebuilt its oxygen-rich atmosphere.

Ancient South African rocks reveal how phosphorus recycling may have helped Earth hold onto oxygen more than 2 billion years ...

Phosphorus is one of the elements that is crucial for the construction of organisms and their metabolism. Its cycle across the environments is also one of the best understood. However, it occurred to ...

Ocean acidification phytoplankton research published in Nature Geoscience shows that rising CO2 forces marine phytoplankton to shed phosphorus from their cell membranes in a process that 1,000 ...

Northwestern University-led researchers have discovered a new way that nature cycles phosphorus, a finding that uncovers a missing piece of Earth’s puzzling phosphorus cycle. The research will be ...

A new conceptual paper argues that the biomolecular packaging of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus, not their elemental ratios ...

Northwestern University researchers are actively overturning the conventional view of iron oxides as mere phosphorus "sinks." A critical nutrient for life, most phosphorus in the soil is organic—from ...

A team of researchers led by Northwestern University has uncovered a new pathway in Earth’s phosphorus cycle, revealing that iron oxide minerals play a crucial role in transforming organic phosphorus ...

New research sheds light on how pollutants from aerosols and river run-off are impacting coastal seas. The research identified an 'Anthropogenic Nitrogen Pump' which changes the phosphorus cycle and ...

A two-year field study shows that foliar lanthanum sprays partially restore photosynthesis, activate carbohydrate metabolism ...

Scientists have streamlined a method for measuring DNA-bound phosphorus in soil, making it cheaper and easier while ...