Carbon sequestration and climate change mitigation using macroalgae: a state of knowledge review

A Pessarrodona, RM Franco‐Santos… - Biological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The conservation, restoration, and improved management of terrestrial forests significantly
contributes to mitigate climate change and its impacts, as well as providing numerous co …

[HTML][HTML] Ocean carbon from space: Current status and priorities for the next decade

RJW Brewin, S Sathyendranath, G Kulk, MH Rio… - Earth-science …, 2023 - Elsevier
The ocean plays a central role in modulating the Earth's carbon cycle. Monitoring how the
ocean carbon cycle is changing is fundamental to managing climate change. Satellite …

[HTML][HTML] Critical maritime infrastructure protection: What's the trouble?

C Bueger, T Liebetrau - Marine policy, 2023 - Elsevier
The protection of critical maritime infrastructures has become a top political priority, since the
September 2022 attacks on the Nord Stream pipelines in the Baltic Sea. This contribution …

Biological carbon pump estimate based on multidecadal hydrographic data

WL Wang, W Fu, FAC Le Moigne, RT Letscher, Y Liu… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The transfer of photosynthetically produced organic carbon from surface to mesopelagic
waters draws carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. However, current observation-based …

Century-scale carbon sequestration flux throughout the ocean by the biological pump

F Ricour, L Guidi, M Gehlen, T DeVries… - Nature Geoscience, 2023 - nature.com
The ocean contains about 40 times more carbon than the atmosphere, storing 38,000 Pg C
as dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) versus 900 Pg C as carbon dioxide (CO2) in the …

The four-dimensional carbon cycle of the Southern Ocean

AR Gray - Annual Review of Marine Science, 2024 - annualreviews.org
The Southern Ocean plays a fundamental role in the global carbon cycle, dominating the
oceanic uptake of heat and carbon added by anthropogenic activities and modulating …

Ocean iron fertilization may amplify climate change pressures on marine animal biomass for limited climate benefit

A Tagliabue, BS Twining, N Barrier… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change scenarios suggest that large‐scale carbon dioxide removal (CDR) will be
required to maintain global warming below 2° C, leading to renewed attention on ocean iron …

[HTML][HTML] Phytoplankton composition from sPACE: Requirements, opportunities, and challenges

I Cetinić, CS Rousseaux, IT Carroll, AP Chase… - Remote Sensing of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Ocean color satellites have provided a synoptic view of global phytoplankton for over 25
years through near surface measurements of the concentration of chlorophyll a. While …

Misconceptions of the marine biological carbon pump in a changing climate: Thinking outside the “export” box

I Frenger, A Landolfi, K Kvale, CJ Somes… - Global Change …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The marine biological carbon pump (BCP) stores carbon in the ocean interior, isolating it
from exchange with the atmosphere and thereby coregulating atmospheric carbon dioxide …

Chasing iron bioavailability in the Southern Ocean: Insights from Phaeocystis antarctica and iron speciation

M Fourquez, DJ Janssen, TM Conway, D Cabanes… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Dissolved iron (dFe) availability limits the uptake of atmospheric CO2 by the Southern
Ocean (SO) biological pump. Hence, any change in bioavailable dFe in this region can …