Researchers were struggling to ascertain how the ocean’s abundance of key nutrients, such as nitrates or phosphates, might have increased during glacial times to fuel a stronger biological pump.

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Oceans play a key role in the global carbon dioxide balance. This is because billions of tiny algae live there, absorbing carbon dioxide through photosynthesis and incorporating it into their biomass.

This process is key to the "biological carbon pump," an important part of the global carbon cycle. Scientists have long known that the ocean plays an essential role in capturing carbon from the ...

April 6 (UPI) --New research suggests the ocean's "biological carbon pump" is more efficient at absorbing carbon than scientists previously estimated. In spring, as the ocean surface in the ...

Differences in the amount of each type of carbon produced from north to south across the Southern Ocean influence how the biological pump impacts local air-sea carbon dioxide exchange. If the amount ...

The “biological pump” in the world’s oceans, which plays a key part in the global carbon cycle, is capturing twice as much carbon than previously thought, scientists have said. The biological carbon ...

Shubha Sathyendranath at Plymouth Marine Laboratory in the UK leads the Biological Pump and Carbon Exchange Processes (BICEP) project – a project funded by ESA’s Science for Society Programme.

The ocean plays a crucial role in the storage of carbon dioxide (CO 2). The so-called marine biological carbon pump is an important research topic in this context. However, according to Dr.

April 06, 2020 at 8:00pm BST. The “biological pump” in the world’s oceans, which plays a key part in the global carbon cycle, is capturing twice as much carbon than previously thought ...

Particularly, the high phytoplankton productivity and biomass make waters around coral reefs potential hotspots of carbon export to ocean depths via the biological pump. The study demonstrated ...