Climate Change Sea Ice
Blue is the New Green: How Melting Sea Ice Might Save Us Billions
As Arctic sea ice melts, the ocean absorbs more carbon. Could this actually be a good thing? Researchers in Norway…
Tag: carbon storage
Biodiversity Climate Change Coastal Management Conservation Ecology Human impacts Restoration Seagrass
Missing the (Kelp) Forest for the Trees: An Overlooked Factor in Blue Carbon Storage
A recent study exposes an overlooked carbon sink in the form of kelp forests. According to scientists' estimates, a kelp…
Book Review Physical oceanography
Oceans absorb more carbon with weaker ocean circulation
A team of researchers investigate why the ocean has been absorbing more carbon from the atmosphere in recent decades, and…
Conservation Ecology Seagrass
It’s a TRAP! Predators help trap carbon in coastal sediments
Vegetated coastal ecosystems, such as salt marshes, can trap and store carbon for millennia. This perspective investigates how the effects…