January 2025/Kiel. Mangrove forests along the Amazon coast release significant amounts of trace elements such as neodymium and hafnium. These elements and their isotopic compositions can serve 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 ...
Spanning 70% of our planet's surface the ocean is the largest carbon sink on Earth, but also the most forgotten. The ocean helps fight climate change by absorbing large amounts of carbon dioxide and ...
The rest is from often microscopic creatures that die at sea and later sink to the bottom in a biological carbon pump that cycles carbon dioxide deep into the world’s oceans for up to thousands ...
Corals also play a great role in the oceans’ carbon cycling, helping to balance the acidity of seawater and maintain its chemical stability. Hence, they are undoubtedly integral to the health of ...