The mystery of the missing deep ocean carbon fixers

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Dec 1, 2025, 3:49 pm128 ptsTrending
In a step toward better understanding how the ocean sequesters carbon, new findings from UC Santa Barbara researchers and collaborators challenge the current view of how carbon dioxide is "fixed" in the sunless ocean depths. UCSB microbial oceanographer Alyson Santoro and colleagues, publishing in the journal…

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