In lakes, bogs, and swamps, water may gain colour, taste, and odour from decaying vegetation and other natural organic matter.
He also pointed out that methane extracted from decaying trash there already powers thousands of local homes.
They presumably derive nourishment from decaying matter and occur in humus-rich soil, in rock fissures, or among roots on the trunks of tree ferns.
Methane, which comes from decaying organic matter, stays in the air for only 12 years but absorbs some 20 times as much energy as carbon dioxide.
The office has begun building a factory that would take the most highly radioactive liquids and sludges from decaying storage tanks and solidify them in glass.
The rhizomorphs' underground growth may form an extensive network, or mat, as it spreads through the soil in search of nutrients from decaying wood or living tree roots.
The moves are the latest layoffs in the mortgage industry, which is suffering from decaying credit quality, slipping home prices, and a drainage of demand for home loans.
The plants put down horizontal roots, reaching no deeper than a foot, in the thin, nutrient-poor soil, created from decaying hammock vegetation.
That is crucial because most transplantable organs need to be removed before the blood stops flowing or within minutes after the heart stops, to prevent cells from decaying.
If Lenin's corpse could be kept from decaying, the masses might see Lenin as a saint — and his party as an altar for worship.
Common sense says you can't keep an atom's nucleus from decaying simply by looking at it.
