Andreas Rogge News Today

The annual binding of up to 3.6 million metric tons of CO2 in the Arctic deep sea by the cross-shelf transport of carbon-rich particles from the Barents and Kara Seas could last for eons.

Annually, the cross-shelf transport of carbon-rich particles from the Barents and Kara Seas can tie up to 3.6 million metric tons of CO2 present in the Arctic deep sea for millennia.

Near the Filchner Ice Shelf in the south of the Antarctic Weddell Sea, a research team has found the world’s largest fish breeding area known to date. A towed camera system photographed and filmed thousands of nests of icefish of the species Neopagetopsis ionah on the seabed. The density of the nests and the size of the entire breeding area suggest a total number of about 60 million icefish breeding at the time of observation. These findings provide support for the establishment of a Marine Pr...