All articles tagged with #ocean sciences
A Nature study shows rocks carried by Greenland and Russian glaciers and later dropped by melting icebergs settle on the Arctic seafloor, creating new habitats for corals, sponges and other deep-sea life as ‘dropstones’; warming climate accelerates glacier flow and iceberg melt, increasing rock delivery and fostering biodiversity hotspots in areas like Fram Strait since 2000.
New research from Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences shows that coccolithophores, a globally ubiquitous type of phytoplankton, can survive in low-light conditions by taking up dissolved organic forms of carbon, forcing researchers to reconsider the processes that drive carbon cycling in the ocean. This is the first evidence of this phenomenon in nature. The uptake of these free-floating organic compounds is another step in both the biological and alkalinity pumps that drive the transport of carbon from the ocean surface to depths below.