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Oceans absorb more carbon with weaker ocean circulation

By ⋅ March 9, 2017 ⋅ Post a comment

A team of researchers investigate why the ocean has been absorbing more carbon from the atmosphere in recent decades, and find ocean circulation could be responsible.

It’s a TRAP! Predators help trap carbon in coastal sediments

By ⋅ January 12, 2016 ⋅ One comment

Vegetated coastal ecosystems, such as salt marshes, can trap and store carbon for millennia. This perspective investigates how the effects from the global loss of predators has cascaded down to these habitats, often resulting in lower carbon storage.

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