There are lots of factors in how quickly organic material decomposes into compost, including creatures called decomposers. Find out what kind of things are part of nature’s clean-up crew.

I cover the living world, from microbes to ecosystems. Decomposer fungi are central to breaking down dead material across ecosystems. As they do so, they move carbon in the soil back into the ...

Believe it or not, you were surrounded by the FBI. Not the Federal Bureau of Investigation, but a plethora of decomposers and scavengers. FBI: Fungi, Bacteria and Invertebrates. Decomposers and ...