Princeton University and Xiamen University researchers report that in tropical and subtropical oligotrophic waters, ocean ...

Autotrophs participate in the carbon cycle by fixing carbon dioxide to produce the biomass ... sequences were found after searching the Global Ocean Sampling dataset; mesophilic marine archaea ...

The Antarctic Circumpolar Current is involved in everything from storing carbon to guarding Antarctica from invasive marine ...

Researchers have been exploring ocean alkalinity enhancement for the last five years. It's a way to remove carbon from our ...

Across the street from the Flamingo Visitor Center at the foot of Florida's Everglades National Park, there was once a ...

Now we can add whale urine to that list, according to a paper published in the journal Nature Communications. “Lots of people ...

A group of scientists from the University of Oldenburg, Germany, has discovered how special bacteria in the ocean break down ...

Sulfate-reducing bacteria break down a large proportion of the organic carbon in the oxygen-free zones of Earth, and in the ...

Matthew Eisaman, an associate professor in the Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences in Yale’s Faculty of Arts & Sciences (FAS) and a leading figure in harnessing the ocean’s natural potential to ...

Credit: Leon Pauleikhoff/Unsplash The fast carbon cycle is concerned ... tell scientists how much carbon dioxide has been in the atmosphere or dissolved in the ocean, going back a long time ...

Known as "marine snow," this shower of biogenic particulate material transfers an estimated 10 billion tonnes of carbon every year into the ocean's interior, roughly the same amount as that ...