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Published online 12 February 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070212-3
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Carbon goes deep
Studies show CO2 has reached the bottom of the ocean.
Human-generated carbon dioxide has sunk down to a great depth in the North Atlantic Ocean, a new study has shown. The work, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences1, suggests that the oceans store CO2 for longer than expected — good news for reducing the risk of climate change, but bad news for marine life in the deep sea.
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