This process is called the biological carbon pump. But what would be the consequences if all marine life disappeared? Researchers Jerry Tjiputra, Damien Couespel, and Richard Sanders, all affiliated ...

They may be microscopic, but their ability to sequester carbon is phenomenal. We are talking phytoplankton – and scientists working on a project funded by ESA are assessing different aspects of ...

The loss of all marine life would disrupt carbon storage and accelerate climate change, highlighting the ocean’s role in ...

The biological carbon pump (BCP) is a critical part of Earth's carbon cycle, removing CO 2 —the main greenhouse gas ...

When plankton dies or is consumed, a set of processes known as the biological carbon pump carries sinking particles of carbon from the surface to the deep ocean in a process known as marine snowfall.

Scientists have known about this phenomenon -- known as the biological pump -- for some time ... of other microbes breaking down the organic carbon within the marine snow particles and converting ...

Carbon taken up by plankton and stored in the deep ocean — known as the biological carbon pump — is a major process in ocean carbon storage. Microplastics may “clog” this pump and slow ...

Humans continue to amplify global warming by emitting billions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year. A new study reveals that a distant human relative plays an outsize role in ...

This has real implications for understanding carbon sequestration and the biological carbon pump," said journal article co-author Benjamin Van Mooy, a senior scientist in the Marine Chemistry and ...

This process is called the biological carbon pump. But what would be the consequences if all marine life disappeared? In one simulation experiment, the researchers kept things as realistic as ...