7 articles
Kelp forests fix carbon at rates rivalling tropical rainforests. What primary production means, how fast kelp really grows, and how scientists measure it.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Nitrogen feeds every kelp blade and limits most ocean growth. A plain-language tour of the marine nitrogen cycle — fixation, upwelling, uptake and loss.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
'Every second breath comes from the ocean' — true, and incomplete. Here's the ocean's real oxygen budget, who pays in, and kelp's honest share.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
A little, briefly, and mostly repaid by dusk. The honest math of kelp's oxygen, the atmosphere's vast bank, and why the air won't notice.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
The Arctic's first bloom happens in the dark, inside the sea ice. How sympagic algae prime the polar food web — and why thinning ice changes it all.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Kelp forests photosynthesise hard — but how much oxygen do they actually produce, where does it go, and is the 'lungs of the ocean' slogan honest science?
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
One ratio — 106 carbon, 16 nitrogen, 1 phosphorus — runs through plankton and deep water alike. What the Redfield ratio reveals about a changing sea.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·