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Mixing Up Microalgae
A recent study shows that within the mixed layer—the region of the upper ocean where temperature and salinity are homogeneous—biological…
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Reduction in Deforestation Influencing Atmospheric CO2
Since 2000, atmospheric CO2 hasn’t been rising as quickly as we expected. It may be because plants on land have…
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Evidence of the Ocean Releasing CO2
Starting 8,000 years ago, a modest but unusual rise in atmospheric CO2 has kept our planet livable and paved the…
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Seasonal Ice Melt Shows Signs of Blooms
Floats collected data underneath the ice during the winter and when the ice melted there were signs of phytoplankton blooms!…
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Sea Ice Modifies Biological Processes
A recent study investigates the relationship between sea ice variability and phytoplankton growth in climate models. Phytoplankton are responsible for…
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Not So Organic Marine Snow
What happens when plastic pollution mixes into the ocean carbon cycle? Read to find out more about how plastic from…
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Gassing Earth Out of the Ice Age: the North Pacific
Enhanced upwelling and CO2 degassing from the North Pacific during a warm climate event 14,000 years ago may have helped…
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Predicted Change to the Southern Ocean Silicate Front
The Southern Ocean Silicate Front (SF) is an important boundary separating waters that are silicate-rich and waters that are silicate-poor.…
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Biofilms are a prominent first step in the colonization of wood-falls
A profound yet never-before-appreciated first step in the colonization of sulfur oxidizing bacteria on the surface of wood-debris in the…
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Warmer Waters Will Trap Nutrients Down Deep
Climate change is warming the ocean and altering how deep water is transported. Researchers in this study estimate that by…
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Let it Sludge!
Marine snow has a lot in common with particles that form during waste water treatment. Read on to find out…
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Fate of Dissolved Carbon in the Antarctic
The ocean surrounding Antarctica, called the Southern Ocean, accounts for about 40% of the total global ocean carbon uptake. This…
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What happens to CO2 levels during El Niño?
Thanks to NASA’s new Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 satellite, we now know when and where CO2 levels change during El Niño,…
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The Subtle Response of Plants to Rising CO2 Levels
Plants need carbon dioxide. What do they do when there’s more and more of it in the atmosphere?
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New Evidence of Erosion, Weathering and CO2 Together Regulating Glacier Formation
Ice cover on earth extends and recedes over thousands of years. But what drives these fluctuations? Moreover, what guarantees that…
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An arsenic surprise: How our buried past will catch up with us
Global sea level is expected to rise 0.8 to 1 meter by 2100 and may release arsenic trapped in soil.…
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Suffocating crabs and a one-way street for carbon
Seafloor life is in danger of running out of oxygen as the ocean warms, but this may actually help to…
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Methane on the dinner menu
Bacteria in coastal waters can eat methane, a greenhouse gas - but just how much and how fast can they…
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Funny happenings in the tropical Pacific
Nitrous oxide is a powerful greenhouse gas made by environmental microbes. In the ocean, microbes making this greenhouse gas live…
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A mercurial tug o’ war in Antarctic sea ice
DNA from bacteria living in Antarctic sea ice provides a clue to the mysterious origins of methyl mercury in seawater…