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The New York Times

What This Year’s ‘Astonishing’ Ocean Heat Means for the Planet

By Elena Shao 08/03/23

Brutal heat waves have baked the world this summer and they haven’t been contained to land. Earth’s oceans are the hottest they have been in modern history, by an unusually wide margin. The planet’s average…

The New York Times

Warming Could Push the Atlantic Past a ‘Tipping Point’ This Century

By Raymond Zhong 07/25/23

The last time there was a major slowdown in the mighty network of ocean currents that shapes the climate around the North Atlantic, it seems to have plunged Europe into a deep cold for over…

NASA

Vanishing Corals: NASA Data Helps Track Coral Reefs

By Angela Colbert 06/22/23

Coral reefs, nicknamed the rainforests of the sea, are colorful, majestic underwater worlds teeming with life. However, their future is in jeopardy due to climate change, water pollution, and other human activities. Let’s explore why…

Medium

3 Tragic Consequences of Global Warming on Ocean Biodiversity

By Dr. Erlijn van Genuchten 06/06/23

Currently, our planet is suffering from the tragic consequences of three crises at the same time: the climate change, pollution, and biodiversity crisis. Biodiversity refers to the different plants and animals living in a certain…

NASA

Slowdown of the Motion of the Ocean

By Angela Colbert 06/05/23

Dynamic and powerful, the ocean plays a vital role in Earth’s climate. It helps regulate Earth’s temperature, absorbs carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere, and fuels the water cycle. One of the most important functions…

The New York Times

The off-the-charts rise of global sea surface temperature this spring has been eye-popping

By David Wallace-Wells 06/01/23

There are a lot of unsettling signals coming from the world’s oceans right now. Even for those of us who watch things like temperature anomalies and extreme weather events as likely portents of the climate…

Los Angeles Times

Could removing carbon from the ocean be a climate change solution?

By Rosanna Xia 04/13/23

The ocean, after all, has long been a silent hero when it comes to climate change. It has absorbed almost one-third of the carbon dioxide released by humans since the Industrial Revolution — and more…

The Guardian

The hidden underwater forests that could help tackle the climate crisis

By Lucy Sherriff 01/02/23

Kelp absorbs carbon dioxide and has high nutritional value, but it is under threat from rising temperatures, pollution and invasive speciesBubbles stream furiously behind Frank Hurd as he gently parts the curtains of giant kelp.…

The Washington Post

Oceans are warming faster than ever. Here’s what could come next.

By Brady Dennis 10/19/22

The world’s oceans have been warming for generations, a trend that is accelerating and threatens to fuel more supercharged storms, devastate marine ecosystems and upend the lives and livelihoods of millions of people, according to…

The Atlantic

Kelp Is Weirdly Great at Sucking Carbon Out of the Sky

By Robinson Meyer 05/25/22

Last month, somewhere off the coast of Maine, a small group of researchers and engineers released a series of tiny, floating objects into the water. The team called them “buoys,” but they looked more like…

Anthropocene

The Biggest Carbon Sink of All

By Mark Harris 05/19/22

One of the brightest hopes for sequestering carbon lies in the darkest place on earth: the abyssal depths of the deep ocean. For millennia, dead plants and animals have sunk to the bottom of the…

The Washington Post

The scientists fighting to save the ocean’s most important carbon capture system

By Lucy Sherriff 07/05/21

Frank Hurd gently parted the curtains of giant kelp that reached upward through the cold waters of the North Pacific, looking for signs of life. Kelp forests cover a quarter of the world’s coastlines, stretching…

Client Earth

What is a carbon sink?

05/23/22

A carbon sink is anything that absorbs more carbon from the atmosphere than it releases – for example, plants, the ocean and soil. In contrast, a carbon source is anything that releases more carbon into…

wikipedia

Carbon sink

05/23/22

A carbon sink is anything, natural or otherwise, that accumulates and stores some carbon-containing chemical compound for an indefinite period and thereby removes carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere. Globally, the two most important carbon…

ocean climate

The Ocean, a carbon sink

05/23/22

A carbon sink is a natural or artificial reservoir that absorbs and stores the atmosphere’s carbon with physical and biological mechanisms. Coal, oil, natural gases, methane hydrate and limestone are all examples of carbon sinks.…

youtube

Carbon conservation and sequestration in ocean

11/06/21

Many coastal blue carbon ecosystems have been recently lost or badly degraded. There is a need to improve protection and consider restoration wherever practicable, through the design of novel and smart, cross-sectorial and multi-regulatory responses.

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Sierra

Can Farming Seaweed Put the Brakes on Climate Change?

By Heather Smith 06/28/21

Seaweed has been removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere for at least 500 million years. Recent studies suggest that wild seaweed continues to do humanity a solid by sequestering 173 million metric tons annually. The…

earth.org

Saving the Ocean’s Invisible Forests

By Istu Septania 06/01/21

The ocean is at the front line of mitigating the climate crisis. Making up over 70% of the Earth’s surface, the ocean plays a crucial role in controlling the global climate system through, among other…

WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM

These tiny plants and giant animals are helping to store vast amounts of CO2 in our oceans

By Katharine Rooney 05/19/21

Some of the tiniest life forms in the sea are playing a mighty role in protecting life on Earth. Scientists have discovered that microscopic plants called diatoms absorb 10-20 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2)…

NPR

‘Run The Oil Industry In Reverse’: Fighting Climate Change By Farming Kelp

By Fred Bever 03/01/21

In the race to stall or even reverse global warming, new efforts are in the works to pull carbon dioxide out of the air and put it somewhere safe. One startup in Maine has a…

ENVIROBITES

Blue Carbon and Green Kelp: Kelp forests could reduce carbon emissions

By Elisabeth Lang 10/09/20

You’re probably familiar with carbon in all different forms, from pencils to diamonds, but have you heard of blue carbon? Blue carbon refers to carbon stored in marine ecosystems and is what many environmental managers…

Carbon Brief

The oceans are absorbing more carbon than previously thought

By Dr Jamie Shutler and Prof Andy Watson 09/28/20

The oceans cover over 70% of the Earth’s surface and play a crucial role in taking up CO2 from the atmosphere. Estimates suggest that around a quarter of CO2 emissions that human activity generates each…

Ocean as Carbon Sink