Rising temperatures are curbing ocean’s capacity to store carbon

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Study finds large amounts of carbon dioxide, equivalent to yearly U.K. emissions, remain in surface waters

MIT climate scientists, including EAPS Associate Professor and Joint Program collaborator MIck Follows, have found that the ocean’s export efficiency, or the fraction of total plankton growth that is sinking to its depths, is decreasing, due mainly to rising global temperatures.

Date: 

Thursday, July 6, 2017

Associated Joint Program People: 

Follows, Mick