In addition, the global climate-cryosphere changes and the marine carbon cycle were significantly regulated by Earth's orbital eccentricity, obliquity, and precession, with the 405,000-year cycle ...

What is the role of dissolved organic matter in the deep sea? In a study relating to this question, researchers from the Universities of Bremen and Oldenburg have investigated the composition of ...

New research reveals the remarkable chemical diversity of substances exuded by coral reefs and demonstrates that thousands of different chemicals derived from tropical corals and seaweeds are ...

Coastal areas, which carry over 50% of the world's population, are essential to humankind because they offer abundant ...

The IAEA Environment Laboratories apply nuclear and isotopic techniques to better understand the carbon cycle, to evaluate the ocean’s ... phytoplankton (microscopic marine plants at the bottom of the ...

New research revealed the remarkable chemical diversity of substances exuded by coral reefs and demonstrated that thousands of different chemicals ...

and heterotrophic bacteria. The products of these organisms feed back into the carbon cycle in marine sediments, where they may be consumed by other microbes.

Zooplankton are one of the most diverse and abundant groups of organisms on Earth and they play an essential role in the marine food chain ... Zooplankton also store carbon from the atmosphere ...

Researchers have published findings on a study into how hurricanes affect oceans based on the impact of two storms that ...

mesophilic marine archaea that fix carbon by this new pathway might make a considerable contribution to the global carbon cycle.

Whales in turn play a role in the marine carbon cycle, sequestering CO2 in their gargantuan bodies while pooping in such great quantities as to stimulate the growth of other carbon-consuming ...