As global temperatures continue to rise, scientists are working to understand how warming affects the planet’s carbon cycle.

Using metagenomic sequencing across a realistic temperature gradient, researchers show that carcass decay triggers a surge in carbon-degradation ...

New research has revealed how the history of life can be distorted by the ways animals decompose and lose body parts as they decay -- and the ways in which decayed bodies ultimately become fossilized.

A science project at the College of Saint Mary is attracting the attention of the Nebraska Humane Society. Forensic students at the college are studying how animals decompose, using dead pigs to ...

Small animals that decompose fallen leaves in the forest form complex food webs and are essential to a functioning ecosystem. A study comprising over 80 forests in Germany and on Sumatra (Indonesia) ...

Are you interested in forensic science, pathology and decomposition? Would you like to find out more about how bodies change after death, and how this information can be used to help a criminal ...

Ecological Bulletins, No. 32, Structure and Function of Northern Coniferous Forests: An Ecosystem Study (1980), pp. 401-409 (9 pages) The role of the mites Phthiracarus spp. and Rhysotritia ardua and ...