photosynthesis

Plants’ “signature trick,” the foundation of life on earth, is photosynthesis, which converts light energy into chemical energy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Eventually plants trapped so much carbon dioxide, which is necessary for photosynthesis, that CO2 levels in the atmosphere plummeted by 90%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Its species also display an unusually wide range of photosynthetic strategies, from conventional C3 photosynthesis, in which carbon dioxide is absorbed during the day, to very strong CAM.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

CAM plants need substantially less water than plants relying entirely on more conventional forms of photosynthesis, making them potentially useful models for developing climate resilient crops.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

There is so much photosynthesis happening right here in this house that the air must be extra rich with oxygen.

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau

He suspects that these minerals may have been deposited while the earth's atmosphere was in a transition state, just beginning to accumulate the oxygen that was being released by the photosyntheses of slow-living, primitive plants.

From Time Magazine Archive