New MBARI research has revealed that the sea cucumber Pelagothuria natatrix plays an important and unexpected role in the ...

An unusual swimming sea cucumber may play an overlooked role in the ocean’s carbon cycle. Research near the Galápagos Islands shows that it catches sinking organic particles before they reach the deep ...

A 53,000-year coccolithophore record from the Bay of Bengal shows the ocean's biological carbon pump was weakest during the ...

A new study shows that microplastics in oceans can distort scientists’ understanding of the carbon cycle. The carbon cycle in our oceans is critical to the balance of life in ocean waters and for ...

A new computer model shows how the shutdown of a vital Atlantic current could force ancient, trapped carbon out of the ...

In the midst of the COVID pandemic, scientists embarked on an ambitious research expedition to the North Atlantic to investigate the inner workings of the ocean's carbon cycle. A series of storms ...

NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies has released ModelE2.1-CC2, a fully interactive Earth system model with upgraded ...

The carbon cycle is the biogeochemical cycle focused on carbon and how it is sequestered in and moves between different reservoirs in the Earth system. Oyster reefs in North Carolina have grown ...

A study in the Artic has found that relatively small-scale occurrences like phytoplankton can shape global ecology and ...

Carbon is found all around the Earth, including in our bodies. While most of the carbon can be found in the geosphere, it is also found in all living things, soil, in the ocean, and in the atmosphere.

The Indian Ocean plays a pivotal role in the global carbon cycle, acting both as a sink and a source for atmospheric carbon dioxide. Monsoon-driven upwelling in the Arabian Sea and differential ...