A five-month soil experiment has revealed that the fate of carbon buried beneath our feet depends on a surprisingly specific combination of chemistry and oxygen. Glucose, a sugar that microbes can readily consume for energy, was retained in soil far more effectively than oxalate whenever oxygen was available—even when that oxygen arrived only intermittently. But […]
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