Continental shelf seas – the shallow waters fringing our coasts and home to the vast majority of global seafood production – are quietly pulling more carbon from the atmosphere than they release, according to a groundbreaking new study. Researchers from the Convex Seascape Survey have found that the strength and direction of prevailing winds play a critical role in how these seas absorb and store carbon. Their findings, published in Global Biogeochemical Cycles, provide the first observational evidence that wind-driven water movements across continental shelves dictate how much carbon remains locked away in the ocean depths.
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