$500 billion question: What's the value of studying the ocean's biological carbon pump?
Thursday, September 10, 2020 - 14:00
in Earth & Climate
The ocean plays an invaluable role in capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere, taking in somewhere between five to 12 gigatons (billion tons) annually. Due to limited research, scientists aren't sure exactly how much carbon is captured and stored—or sequestered—by the ocean each year or how increasing CO2 emissions will affect this process in the future.