The weak-closed decomposition theory was used to investigate the struc
ture of injective comodules and the property of the minimal injective
resolution of a comodule. The results on comodules over a coalgebra, w
hich are similar to those on the modules over a commutative noetherian
ring, were obtained. Finally, the above results were used to study th
e local cohomology defined by an ideal A of C, where C* is the dual a
lgebra of a coalgebra over a field k.