- The ocean already quietly does much of humanity’s climate heavy lifting.
- As Earth’s largest actively cycling carbon reservoir, it holds roughly 44 times more carbon than the atmosphere and draws down about 2.9 petagrams of carbon every year, exchanging it on timescales relevant to human societies.
- A growing field of marine carbon dioxide removal, or mCDR, aims to amplify that natural service deliberately, and a new collection of eleven studies published in Frontiers in Environmental Engineering offers one of the most detailed engineering assessments yet of what works, what remains uncertain, and what could go wrong before these technologies scale.
Read the full news here: Engineering the Ocean’s Carbon Pump: New Research Maps the Path to Marine CO2 Removal