As atmospheric carbon dioxide levels continue to rise, the ocean plays a crucial role in helping to reduce the full impact of ...

A major ocean current in the Southern Hemisphere has reversed direction for the first time in recorded history, in what ...

New satellite maps reveal how oceans absorb carbon, offering real-time insight into climate shifts and ocean acidification.

A startup called Gigablue claims to have reached a milestone by selling 200,000 carbon credits for its ocean-based carbon ...

A new study in collaboration with BAS scientists reveals for the first time that zooplankton migration contributes ...

This diffusion‑limited regime likely dominates for fluffier aggregates made of phytoplankton remains, fecal pellets, or ...

Oceans cover the vast majority of Earth’s surface area and absorb nearly a quarter of global carbon dioxide emissions. They ...

Vast amounts of organic carbon settle on the seafloor each year, coming from decaying marine life and from living (or once ...

But the researchers aren't advocating against using the ocean as a carbon sink entirely. Encouragingly, they found that abiotic methods, ...

Reducing the value of three-quarters of our planet to the singular role of carbon sink overlooks the ocean’s vast contributions to food security, cultural identity and economics.

The ocean is not just a carbon sink. Long outdated is the notion of the ocean as the planet’s greatest “carbon sink”, as are the climate strategies associated with that perceived construct; ...

A new satellite-based product can now map the ocean carbon sink at unprecedented resolution.Although the oceanic sink for the ...