The biological carbon pump — the natural process of marine organisms and fish drawing CO2 from the atmosphere and storing it in the ocean — has the potential to remove roughly $1 trillion per year ...

Through one of the primary carbon storage mechanisms, the biological carbon pump, phytoplankton (microscopic marine plants at the bottom of the oceanic food chain) take up CO 2 in the surface ocean ...

Mesoscale eddies, oceanic gyres about 100 kilometers in diameter, are ubiquitous features of the global ocean and play a ...

The bountiful creatures sequester carbon and are a vital food source for marine predators, but their future is uncertain ...

Without this biological carbon pump, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels ... steps to mitigate the impacts of global warming on the marine carbon cycle and food webs. Receive a weekly dose of ...

How is organic matter transported from productive coastal areas to the open ocean? Researchers have now shown that eddies play a crucial role in this process. The swirling currents contain large ...

Scientists have known about this phenomenon – known as the biological pump – for some time ... microbes breaking down the ...

By introducing clay dust into the marine ecosystem, researchers aim to enhance the efficiency of the biological pump—a natural cycle that transfers carbon from the atmosphere to the deep ocean.