When bottom trawls are dragged across the seafloor, they stir up sediments. This not only releases previously stored organic carbon, but also intensifies the oxidation of pyrite, a mineral present in ...

The carbon cycle is the biogeochemical cycle focused ... Insights from thallium isotopes in Archean shales suggest that it may have experienced flips in oxygenation on a global scale prior to ...

When evidence emerged from deep in the North Atlantic showing the Laurentide persisted, researchers needed a new model. Creel set out to explain ... interglacial sea levels from known suspects: ocean ...

For instance, oxygen isotopes in both bodies are nearly identical ... enveloped by a magma ocean hundreds of miles deep. The collision’s immense energy melted Earth’s surface, while its ...

The ocean plays a large role in cycling carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Determining how much carbon is locked away in the ...

Have you ever thought about what would happen if all life in the ocean disappeared? A recent study explores this extreme ...

A global survey of microplastics in oceans reveals that tiny particles of plastic are prevalent throughout the water column, ...

Lovenduski and her team set out to investigate the causes of the recent slowdown in ocean carbon uptake. The research team, including first author, Holly Olivarez, who was a graduate student at CU ...

A global survey of the tiny particles reveals they are prevalent throughout the water column – even at the deepest depths – which could affect the ocean’s ability to remove carbon from the ...

“Seaweed farming offers a scalable, nature-based solution for carbon removal while delivering co-benefits such as biodiversity enhancement, economic opportunities and food security,” said Carlos ...

BEIJING -- A group of Chinese scientists have jointly developed a global ocean circulation model with a horizontal resolution ...