Malia Moore is a sixth-year PhD candidate studying marine biology at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.

In a slow, invisible process, leaves, wood and roots are gradually decomposed—not by wind or weather, but by millions and millions of tiny organisms.

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