"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.

The oceans play a pivotal role in drawing down atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂) and have so far acted as a brake on the full ...

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 ...

Carbon dioxide uptake in the ocean is not uniform. Some regions act as sinks, drawing the gas down ... such as storm tracks and the Southern Ocean. This came as a surprise.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

In the Southern Ocean, approximately 12,000 sperm whales deposit ... When whales die, their massive bodies contain a large amount of carbon. As their carcasses sink to the ocean floor—often referred ...