Through one of the primary carbon storage mechanisms, the biological carbon pump, phytoplankton (microscopic marine plants at the bottom of the oceanic food chain) take up CO 2 in the surface ocean ...

The ocean, Earth's largest carbon reservoir, regulates climate by transferring atmospheric CO₂ into the deep sea through the biological carbon pump. This system facilitates atmospheric CO₂ transfer ...

The function of many biologically active molecules requires the presence of carbon-nitrogen bonds in ... who seek to discover molecules with novel biological function. Typically, a catalyst ...

Without this biological carbon pump, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels would be around 50 per cent higher than they are today. But as our ocean warms, this zooplankton community is changing ...

Researchers say bottom-fishing, deep-sea mining, oil and gas extraction, and marine construction all threaten to disturb a biological carbon pump that plays a critical role in removing carbon from ...