The plant, backed by Singapore’s water agency PUB and US-based startup Equatic, aims to remove 10 tonnes of carbon dioxide from the ocean each day. The US$20 million plant, dubbed Equatic-1, will be ...

If undisturbed, they can hold carbon for thousands of years, far longer than terrestrial plants. They thereby play the role of a natural carbon sink. They account for 10% of the ocean's total ...

Nutrient circulation Phytoplankton, like land plants, require nutrients such as nitrate or calcium. They also need iron, which is scarce in large areas of the ocean. But when whales defecate ...

Through one of the primary carbon storage mechanisms, the biological carbon pump, phytoplankton (microscopic marine plants at the bottom of the oceanic food chain) take up CO 2 in the surface ocean ...

1 nuclear power plant complex. And all the signs point to ... and ordering the water to be discharged into the Pacific Ocean after it has been further processed to ensure radiation levels fall ...