Diminishing prospects for environmental preservation under climate change are intensifying
efforts to boost capture, storage and sequestration (long-term burial) of carbon. However, as …

Photoautotrophic marine ecosystems can lock up organic carbon in their biomass and the
associated organic sediments they trap over millennia and are thus regarded as blue carbon …

Global warming is causing significant losses of marine ice around the polar regions. In
Antarctica, the retreat of tidewater glaciers is opening up novel, low‐energy habitats (fjords) …

Glacial meltwater from the western Antarctic Ice Sheet is hypothesized to be an important
source of cryospheric iron, fertilizing the Southern Ocean, yet its trace-metal composition …

Stream sediments from mine area are a converging source of water and soil pollution. The
risk and development trends of metal (loid) s pollution in sediments from an abandoned …

Benthic organisms of the Southern Ocean are particularly vulnerable to ocean acidification
(OA), as they inhabit cold waters where calcite-aragonite saturation states are naturally low …

We examined iron biogeochemistry in continental margin sediments along the western side
of the Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) to explore the connections between iron redox cycling and …

Abstract The West Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) region encompasses numerous fjords known
to be hotspots of benthic biodiversity and biomass. These ecosystems are undergoing rapid …

High-latitude ecosystems have been overlooked in carbon budgets, which traditionally focus
on mangroves, salt marshes, and seagrasses. The benthic assemblages and their Nature …

Understand the origin, transport, and character of organic matter entering Antarctic fjords is
essential as they are major components of the global carbon cycle and budget …