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New Study Reveals Hidden “Chemical Currency” Fueling the Ocean’s Carbon Cycle
This research identifies a diverse set of molecules released by marine phytoplankton that fuel microbial life and help drive Earth’s carbon cycle.
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- “Lots of people around the country — really around the world — have been looking to see how New York does in implementing this strong climate law,” said Michael Gerrard, a Columbia University law professor […]
- Some are more exposed than others, but all across Asia it is used for power generation and for industry, so there will be cascading impacts,” said Anne-Sophie Corbeau, a natural gas expert at Columbia University’s […]
- In New York, Daniel Bader, a program manager at the Consortium for Climate Risk in the Urban Northeast at Columbia’s climate school, described a particularly dramatic swing: &…
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