Tag: "carbon cycle"

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Bacterial Carbon Fixation in Dark Ocean Depths

  By Henry Workman Marine Science Today Writer The biological process of carbon fixation plays indispensable roles at the primary level of ecosystems and in the world’s carbonic cycle.  Where there is sufficient sunlight to drive photosynthesis, the process by which plants convert CO2 into sugars and expel O2 as waste, energy passed through food [...]

Sep 08, 2011 | 0 comments View Post
An illustration of the carbon cycle -- Courtesy: NOAA

NOAA-Led Study Shows Climate Change Largely Irreversible

It is impossible nowadays to have an informed discussion of global warming and climate change without understanding the role of the oceans in affecting the key processes of change.  A new study led by award-winning NOAA scientist Susan Solomon, examined how changes in surface temperature, rainfall and sea level are largely irreversible for more than 1,000 [...]

Jan 29, 2009 | 0 comments View Post