Each year, vast blooms of phytoplankton spread across the Southern Ocean, drawing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and ...
The Southern Ocean has quietly shielded the planet from even more extreme warming by soaking up vast amounts of heat, but new modeling suggests that protection may be temporary. If emissions finally ...
New research suggests that the negative effects of the ozone hole on the carbon uptake of the Southern Ocean are reversible, but only if greenhouse gas emissions rapidly decrease. The study finds that ...