NOAA research shows it would take the average tree more than 1500 years to sequester the amount of carbon dioxide a whale can ...

Ocean ecosystems play a critical role in ... Carbon, a chemical element, is found in all organic matter on Earth, from the plants and animals alive today to fossil fuels buried underground.

Seabirds transport nitrogen and phosphorus from the ocean to the land in their poop, increasing the density of plants on islands. Animals form the circulatory system of the planet—and whales are ...

On research cruises, while testing seawater, he and his colleagues kept finding the same fragment of DNA in the ocean. But when ... the ability to engineer plants that could snatch nitrogen ...

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 ...