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Climate Prediction Group Leader, CSIRO

Close-up of a marine nitrogen fixer colony. Angelicque White

October 23, 2019

Tropical ocean bacteria help pump CO2 out of the atmosphere ‑ new study

Pearse James Buchanan, University of Liverpool; Richard Matear, CSIRO, and Zanna Chase, University of Tasmania

Nitrogen-fixing bacteria help tropical phytoplankton absorb carbon dioxide, creating a biological pump in the oceans.

Replanting forests is one way to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. This is a site in China. CIFOR/Flickr

August 3, 2015

Reducing emissions alone won’t stop climate change: new research

Richard Matear, CSIRO and Andrew Lenton, CSIRO

New research shows that we’ll have to remove carbon from the atmosphere for any chance of keeping warming below 2C.

Carbon is channelled deep into the sea through a funnel-like mechanism. tbdevries

July 29, 2012

Clue to carbon storage in the Southern Ocean

Fron Jackson-Webb, The Conversation

Carbon emissions are drawn deep into the Southern Ocean by plunging currents, scientists have found, challenging the idea that carbon is locked away from the atmosphere by being absorbed across vast areas…

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