Ocean vital signs | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT News

For the Climate Grand Challenge, a team of scientists propose using drones to monitor ocean CO2 levels to learn how much carbon the ocean absorbs; this will tell us how efficient carbon capture technologies are at reducing emissions.

Without the ocean, the climate crisis would be even worse than it is. Each year, the ocean absorbs billions of tons of carbon from the atmosphere, preventing warming that greenhouse gas would otherwi… [+4608 chars]

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