The world’s oceans absorb roughly 25% of human-generated carbon dioxide (CO2), serving as nature’s largest carbon sink.

Heat Absorption Oceans play a crucial role in absorbing excess heat generated by greenhouse gas emissions. In fact, they take ...

Antarctic krill swimming between the Southern Ocean's surface and seafloor depths, make a "surprisingly small" contribution to the carbon export ...

New research by the UK's National Oceanography Centre reveals hidden ocean processes and challenges the role of diatoms in ...

NEW YORK, Jan. 14, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Gigablue, a provider of scalable, affordable carbon dioxide removal (CDR) ...

The distribution of sources and sinks at land and ocean surfaces is then optimized for observed atmospheric CO 2 concentrations. This approach has confirmed the location of the residual carbon ...

Antarctic krill swimming between the Southern Ocean's surface and seafloor depths, make a "surprisingly small" contribution ...

This chemical reaction makes the ocean the planet’s largest carbon sink, a term referring to a natural or man-made reservoir that absorbs more carbon than it releases. The new technology aims to ...

Kiel. How can seagrass help combat climate change? This question is the focus of the new research project ZOBLUC (“Zostera marina as a Blue Carbon Sink in the Baltic Sea”), which now starts under the ...

Seagrass meadows promote biodiversity, contribute to coastal protection by attenuating waves and improve water quality. They are also highly effective at storing carbon dioxide (CO₂), as the ...

Afforestation and reforestation can provide short-term sinks to slow warming and possibly give us more time to find solutions, but ultimately we need to get the carbon into the ocean or geologic ...

Prime Minister James Marape has reiterated his consistent call that big carbon emitters of the world have a “moral obligation ...