An area of the Democratic Republic of Congo containing the largest body of fresh water in Africa has been added to the Ramsar Convention's list of Wetlands of International Importance, making it...
Nutrients from the Amazon River spread well beyond the continental shelf and drive carbon capture in the deep ocean, according to the authors of a multi-year study
For 20 years, Sam Bowser, a scientist at the New York State Department of Health's Wadsworth Center, has dived the frigid, yet surprisingly, biologically rich-waters of McMurdo Sound, Antarctica,...
The ability of the Southern Ocean to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is being eroded by climate change, say environmental researchers. If the trend continues, then the ability of this...