Bioplastics for a circular economy

JG Rosenboom, R Langer, G Traverso - Nature Reviews Materials, 2022 - nature.com
Bioplastics—typically plastics manufactured from bio-based polymers—stand to contribute to
more sustainable commercial plastic life cycles as part of a circular economy, in which virgin …

The land-to-ocean loops of the global carbon cycle

P Regnier, L Resplandy, RG Najjar, P Ciais - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Carbon storage by the ocean and by the land is usually quantified separately, and does not
fully take into account the land-to-ocean transport of carbon through inland waters …

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Global carbon and other biogeochemical cycles and feedbacks

JG Canadell, PMS Monteiro, MH Costa… - Climate change 2021 …, 2023 - cambridge.org
It is unequivocal that the increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4)
and nitrous oxide (N2O) since the pre-industrial period are caused by human activities. The …

Trends and variability in the ocean carbon sink

N Gruber, DCE Bakker, T DeVries, L Gregor… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
The ocean has absorbed 25±2% of the total anthropogenic CO2 emissions from the early
1960s to the late 2010s, with rates more than tripling over this period and with a mean …

Our future in the Anthropocene biosphere

C Folke, S Polasky, J Rockström, V Galaz, F Westley… - Ambio, 2021 - Springer
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed an interconnected and tightly coupled globalized
world in rapid change. This article sets the scientific stage for understanding and responding …

[HTML][HTML] Global carbon budget 2021

P Friedlingstein, MW Jones, M O'Sullivan… - Earth System …, 2022 - essd.copernicus.org
Accurate assessment of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions and their
redistribution among the atmosphere, ocean, and terrestrial biosphere in a changing climate …

Twenty-first century ocean warming, acidification, deoxygenation, and upper-ocean nutrient and primary production decline from CMIP6 model projections

L Kwiatkowski, O Torres, L Bopp, O Aumont… - …, 2020 - bg.copernicus.org
Anthropogenic climate change is projected to lead to ocean warming, acidification,
deoxygenation, reductions in near-surface nutrients, and changes to primary production, all …

Changing ocean, marine ecosystems, and dependent communities

NL Bindoff, WWL Cheung, JG Kairo, J Arístegui… - 2019 - ri.conicet.gov.ar
The ocean is a key component of the Earth system (Chapter 1) as it provides essential life
supporting services (Inniss et al. 2017). For example, it stores heat trapped in the …

Polar regions

MP Meredith, M Sommerkorn… - The ocean and …, 2019 - research.monash.edu
This chapter assesses the state of physical, biological and social knowledge concerning the
Arctic and Antarctic ocean and cryosphere, how they are affected by climate change, and …

Global carbon budget 2023

P Friedlingstein, M O'sullivan, MW Jones… - Earth System …, 2023 - essd.copernicus.org
Accurate assessment of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and their
redistribution among the atmosphere, ocean, and terrestrial biosphere in a changing climate …