Climate
OTZ at COP27
This year, the ocean will occupy a more prominent position than it ever has at any previous UN Climate Conference.…
Read MoreWhere Does the Carbon Go?
Following the trail of marine snow with members of WHOI’s Café Thorium By Elise Hugus MIT-WHOI Joint Program Student Samantha…
Read MoreA New Report for the One Ocean Summit
A comb jelly, one of the many species that live in the ocean twilight zone, appears rainbow-colored—but this prism effect…
Read MoreThe Lungs of the Earth: Shifting a Metaphor from Superstition to Science
Georgetown Journal of Public Affairs
Read MoreSpotlight: Ken Buesseler
WHOI Radiochemist Ken Buesseler Ken Buesseler has always been fascinated by radioactivity. As a marine radiochemist, he uses radioactive particles—which…
Read MoreThe $500 billion question
WHOI marine chemist Ken Buesseler (right), one of the authors of the study, deploys a sediment trap used to study…
Read MoreThe Ocean Twilight Zone’s Impact on Climate
Scientists have long understood that the oceans can remove heat-trapping carbon from the atmosphere. As it does so, it can…
Read MoreThe ocean’s carbon pump works better than we thought!
Scientists have long known that the ocean plays an essential role in capturing carbon from the atmosphere, but a study…
Read MoreThe Ocean Twilight Zone’s crucial carbon pump
Oceanus Magazine
Read MoreValue Beyond View: The Ocean Twilight Zone
How does the ocean twilight zone benefit life on Earth? This mysterious ocean realm helps regulate our climate, storing two…
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