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Experts call for 'urgent global action' after making disturbing discovery deep within the ocean: 'An overlooked link'

"We call ... to address this emerging threat." Experts call for 'urgent global action' after making disturbing discovery deep ...
Scientific American

‘Marine Snow’ Studies Show How the Ocean Eats Carbon

From the sunlit top 200 meters of the sea, plankton carcasses, excrement and molt particles constantly drift toward the depths. As this so-called marine snow sinks, the bits can clump together or ...
KPBS

How dead stuff at the bottom of the ocean helps slow the pace of climate change

In the deep ocean, thousands of feet below the surface, it looks like it's snowing. At those depths, the water is filled with slowly drifting particles known as "marine snow," part of a never-ending ...
Morning Overview on MSN

Scientists found the deep ocean’s missing link at last

For decades, oceanographers have known that something did not add up in the deep sea. Huge predators like sharks and tunas were spending long stretches in the dim “twilight zone,” yet the known prey ...
Parkersburg News and Sentinel

Ocean dumping – or a climate solution? A growing industry bets on the ocean to capture carbon

In this photo provided by the Ocean Alk-Align project, pink dye is released into Tufts Cove along Halifax Harbour in Nova Scotia, Canada, as part of a project by the company Planetary Technologies to ...
Nature

Monsoons complicate how the Indian Ocean locks away carbon

A 50,000-year record of carbon accumulation in the northeast Indian Ocean, extending to the last ice age, shows that monsoon dynamics — not biological productivity — control long-term carbon ...
Inc

How Oceans Can Capture Carbon

Divers from Dokuz Eylül University (DEU) Institute of Marine Sciences and Technology conduct a project to determine the carbon sequestration capacity of the endemic Posidonia Oceanica seagrasses of ...
EurekAlert!

Can we tap the ocean’s power to capture carbon?

This photo was taken during a study on the effect of ocean alkalinity enhancement as a way to boost carbon uptake in the ocean. The researchers are studying what happens to a North Sea plankton ...
Grist

The ocean is a carbon toilet. Marine heat waves are clogging it.

The planet would be a whole lot hotter if it weren’t for fecal pellets. Across the world’s oceans, tiny organisms known as phytoplankton harvest the sun’s energy, gobbling up carbon dioxide and ...
Orlando Sentinel

Ocean dumping – or a climate solution? A growing industry bets on the ocean to capture carbon

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) — From the grounds of a gas-fired power plant on the eastern shores of Canada, a little-known company is pumping a slurry of minerals into the ocean in the name of stopping ...
Gizmodo

The Ocean Is a Carbon Toilet. Marine Heat Waves Are Clogging It.

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. The planet would be a whole lot hotter if it weren’t for fecal pellets. Across the world’s oceans, tiny ...
NBC New York

Dumping or climate solution? A growing industry bets on the ocean to capture carbon

From the grounds of a gas-fired power plant on the eastern shores of Canada, a little-known company is pumping a slurry of minerals into the ocean in the name of stopping climate change. Whether it’s ...