As Arctic sea ice melts, new life may emerge from the thaw. Researchers have discovered that bacteria beneath and along the melting ice are converting nitrogen gas into a form that fuels algae. The ...

The shrinking sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is, overall, a disaster. But paradoxically, the melting of the ice can also fuel the engine of the Arctic food chains: algae.

Woods Hole, Mass. (March 7, 2023) -- The injection of bubbles from waves breaking in turbulent and cold high-latitude regions of the high seas is an underappreciated way in which atmospheric gases are ...

A new study shows how carbon from rivers and saltwater mixing control emissions. Protecting natural salinity can help manage ...

Scientists have warned that cutting global emissions is “the only way” to safeguard marine life in continental shelf waters, ...

Scientists develop a system that captures CO2 from seawater and converts it into bioplastic feedstock, cutting emissions.

Researchers uncover the secrets of the world’s largest carbon reservoir: the ocean bottom. We join an international team of researchers as they head down to the ocean bottom. Their mission: to solve a ...

Climate models suggest that climate change could reduce the Southern Ocean's ability to absorb carbon dioxide (CO2). However, ...

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 62, No. 5 (September 2017), pp. 2200-2212 (13 pages) Arsenic (As) has long been recognized as an environmental toxicant. Its biogeochemical cycling in the ocean is ...

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have discovered an important phenomenon beneath the Arctic sea ice that was ...