Climate benefit and ecological cost trade-offs for ocean iron fertilization
Buesseler, K. O. Next steps for assessing ocean iron fertilization for marine carbon dioxide removal. Front. Clim. 6,…
Rock weathering can counteract river CO2 emissions induced by permafrost thaw
Study area and field sampling Spanning about 30% of the entire QTP, this 780,000 km2 study area is situated…
Reduction of tropical cyclone-induced ocean carbon outgassing since 1993
Ciais, P. et al. Five decades of northern land carbon uptake revealed by the interhemispheric CO2 gradient. Nature…
Earth’s Longest Ice Age May Have Repeatedly Thawed and Refrozen for 56 Million Years
Artistic representation of a Snowball Earth. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. The Sturtian glaciation was one of the most extreme…
Atmospheric oxygen constraints on Southern Ocean productivity and drivers of carbon uptake
Chavez, F. P., Messié, M. & Pennington, J. T. Marine primary production in relation to climate variability and…
Industrial chemicals have reached the middle of the oceans, new study shows
New research shows the chemicals we use to kill pests, heal our bodies and package our foods are…
Ailing “Megaberg” Sparks Surge of Microscopic Life
Iceberg A-23A has had a more eventful run than most of the large Antarctic icebergs that have calved…
Uncertainties of enhanced rock weathering for climate-change mitigation
IPCC. Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2023). Fuss, S. et al. Negative emissions…
Fire on Ice: The Arctic’s Changing Fire Regime
The number of wildland fires burning in the Arctic is on the rise, according to NASA researchers. Moreover,…
New River Chemistry Insights May Boost Coastal Ocean Modeling
Source: Global Biogeochemical Cycles Rivers deliver freshwater, nutrients, and carbon to Earth’s oceans, influencing the chemistry of coastal…
Managing Carbon Stocks Requires an Integrated View of the Carbon Cycle
Editors’ Highlights are summaries of recent papers by AGU’s journal editors. Source: AGU Advances Managing carbon stocks in…
Functional diversity of soil microbial communities increases with ecosystem development
Winkler, K., Fuchs, R., Rounsevell, M. & Herold, M. Global land use changes are four times greater than…