"The Southern Ocean, most people would argue, is the world's most important carbon sink." However, its carbon uptake had fluctuated over the past 30 years and no one was quite sure why, Turnbull said.

Movie illustrating the development of the sea-surface pCO2 from 1982 through 2011 in µatm. The number above the color bar illustrates the mean atmospheric partial pressure of CO2 south of 35S.

Both findings are potentially good news for the ocean carbon-sink, but they also leave important questions. The Southern Ocean was a carbon source in pre-industrial times, but has since been ...

Rain has so far been ignored in calculations of the ocean's capacity to take up carbon, but a new estimate shows it enhances ...

The Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observations and Modeling (SOCCOM ... Much of this carbon is recycled in the upper ocean, but some of what sinks out of the surface ocean reaches the ocean floor ...

In a paper published in National Science Review, several international teams of scientists present a low latency carbon ...

The waste from this frenzy—Earth’s largest migration of creatures—sinks to the ocean floor, removing millions of metric tons of carbon from the atmosphere each year. This activity is one of ...

These discrepancies are only limited to land carbon sinks but also includes the ocean which are showing major instability in their system. Carbon is stored in the ocean's depth both in dissolved ...

A new project, known as KRILLGUARD, launches today which aims to protect the Southern Ocean ecosystem by focusing on Antarctic krill, a keystone species in the ecosystem. Rising ocean temperatures are ...

For the first time, scientists might be able to incorporate rain into models that predict the planet's carbon capacity.

It's probably not a great idea to count on forests for a widespread carbon sink, particularly if societies don't reduce their emissions. These mushroom balls turn your yard into a climate-change ...