WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 (TNSjou) -- The Department of Energy's Office of Science Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory issued the following news on Dec. 1, 2023: * * * Research in an artificial tropical rainforest demonstrates how drought leads to loss of carbon to the atmosphere. * * * The Science Microbes produce and release volatile organic compounds (VOCs) as metabolites, which can be either quickly used as carbon sources in the soil by other microbes or released into the atmosphere.  more