29 Apr 2025
When bottom trawls are dragged across the seafloor, they stir up sediments. This not only releases previously stored organic carbon, but also intensifies the oxidation of pyrite, a mineral present in marine sediments, leading to additional emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2). These are the findings of a new study conducted by the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre […]
06 Mar 2023
As reported by The Times, over the next few months a company wants to dump tonnes of minerals used to make laxatives in the sea as a way to fight climate change. Planetary Technologies believes the minerals dump in the ocean could increase its alkalinity which in turn will remove CO2 from the atmosphere. The company […]
27 Apr 2021
Canadian researchers have found find that the population of bowhead whales which overwinters in the Amundsen Gulf and Eastern Beaufort Sea did not make the 6,000km round trip in 2018-2019. Click here. Bowheads are the only baleen whale endemic to the Arctic. They live near the polar ice edge for much of the year and […]
05 Feb 2018
Damian Carrington Environment editor Guardian ‘Silver bullet’ to suck CO2 from air and halt climate change ruled out Scientists say climate targets cannot be met using the technologies, which either risk huge damage to the environment or are very costly. Ways of sucking carbon dioxide from the air will not work on the vast scales […]