The biological formation of carbonate minerals plays an important role in ocean acidification recovery, a new Nature Geoscience article by NESSC-researcher Jack Middelburg and colleagues posits. Changes to the
/ read moreNews
500 million years long history of CO2 revealed
NESSC-scientists have reconstructed the history of varying CO2-concentrations for a record 500 million years. Researchers at the Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) and Utrecht University recovered the ancient
/ read moreTipping points in Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets
The melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets will accelerate and become irreversible if global temperatures increase above a 1,5 – 2 degrees Celsius threshold, a newly published
/ read moreBreakthrough for improving paleothermometer
A breakthrough in the methodology of climate temperature reconstruction based on microbial molecular fossils advances the development of a paleothermometer for reconstructing past temperatures on land. NESSC-researcher Jaap Sinninghe
/ read moreOceans offering solutions to combat climate change
The world’s oceans offer unexplored solutions to counter the adverse effects of climate change like ocean warming, ocean acidification and sea level rise. An international team of world leading
/ read more