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

Antarctic krill swimming between the Southern Ocean's surface and seafloor depths, make a "surprisingly small" contribution ...

In an innovative effort to combat climate change, a Dartmouth-led study has proposed a method that employs trillions of microscopic zooplankton to accelerate the ocean’s natural carbon removal ...

Plants and phytoplankton are the main components of the fast carbon cycle. Phytoplankton (microscopic organisms in the ocean) and plants take carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by absorbing it into ...

Examining 15 years of data in the Arctic, this study shows that plankton, including diatoms ... a sediment core in Svalbard. Deep-sea dissolved organic carbon is significantly removed within ...

Plankton are an important food source for many large and small ocean creatures. They also play a vital role in absorbing carbon dioxide and producing oxygen in the ocean. The two most prominent ...

Fecal pellet: The particulate excretion of zooplankton. Fecal pellets contain substantial amounts of organic carbon and organically ... Over the annual cycle a given ocean region typically ...

Understanding how key players such as whales, plankton, seagrasses and other forms of sea life interact sheds light on Earth’s carbon cycle. Carbon, a chemical element, is found in all organic ...

On average, 10 13 to 10 14 grams (10–100 million metric tons) of carbon move through the slow carbon cycle every year ... In the modern ocean, most of the calcium carbonate is made by shell-building ...