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Ocean as Carbon Sink

Ocean as Carbon Sink

Ocean as Carbon Sink

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May 25 2022
The Atlantic

Kelp Is Weirdly Great at Sucking Carbon Out of the Sky

By Robinson Meyer
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…
May 19 2022
Anthropocene

The Biggest Carbon Sink of All

By Mark Harris
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…
Jul 05 2021
The Washington Post

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

By Lucy Sherriff Photo: Tristin McHugh/The Nature Conservancy
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…
Jun 28 2021
Sierra

Can Farming Seaweed Put the Brakes on Climate Change?

By Heather Smith Illustration: Peter and Maria Hoey
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…
Jun 01 2021
earth.org

Saving the Ocean’s Invisible Forests

By Istu Septania
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…
May 19 2021
WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM

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

By Katharine Rooney Photo: Unsplash/ The Tampa Bay Estuary Program
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)…
Mar 01 2021
NPR

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

By Fred Bever Photo: Fred Bever
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…
Oct 09 2020
ENVIROBITES

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

By Elisabeth Lang
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…
Sep 28 2020
Carbon Brief

The oceans are absorbing more carbon than previously thought

By Dr Jamie Shutler and Prof Andy Watson
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…

KEY RESOURCES

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…

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…

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.…

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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