Arctic carbon conveyor belt found

Yearly, the cross-shelf transport of carbon-rich particles from the Barents and Kara Seas may bind as much as 3.6 million metric tons of CO2 within the Arctic deep sea for millennia. On this area alone, a beforehand unknown transport route makes use of the organic carbon pump and ocean currents to soak up atmospheric CO2 on the size of Iceland’s complete annual emissions, as researchers report.