Princeton University and Xiamen University researchers report that in tropical and subtropical oligotrophic waters, ocean acidification reduces primary production, the process of photosynthesis in ...

Microplastics are hindering photosynthesis, the process by which plants convert energy from the sun into the fruit and ...

The discovery of dark oxygen clearly has potential implications for the deep-sea mining industry. Deep-sea mining would ...

(C) In the coastal ocean, photosynthesis, decomposition and re-exchanging of CO2 with the atmosphere still continue. Solid organic carbon (e.g., soil particles, phytoplankton cells) is buried in ...

On land, photosynthesis is carried out by plants, and the impacts of the process can be seen with the autumn leaves changing color and new green leaves in the spring. But in the ocean, the process ...

microscopic marine algae known as phytoplankton also feed on CO2 and use photosynthesis to produce energy. Seagrasses and phytoplankton near the ocean’s surface form the base of the aquatic food ...

Productivity fuels life in the ocean, drives its chemical cycles, and lowers atmospheric carbon dioxide. Nutrient uptake and export interact with circulation to yield distinct ocean regimes.

She began to wonder about the vast, cold blackness of the polar ocean. In early 2020, Hoppe found herself testing the limits of photosynthesis directly, camped aboard an icebreaker ship that had ...

On average, these little particles could reduce photosynthesis in plants and algae ... The tiny plastic particles have been found in the ocean breeze, soil and even our brains.

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 ...