{"id":203018,"date":"2025-01-03T10:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T16:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/scientists-make-extraordinary-discovery-deep-in-the-ocean-that-kind-of-changes-our-thinking"},"modified":"2025-01-03T10:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T16:24:10","slug":"scientists-make-extraordinary-discovery-deep-in-the-ocean-that-kind-of-changes-our-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/scientists-make-extraordinary-discovery-deep-in-the-ocean-that-kind-of-changes-our-thinking","title":{"rendered":"Scientists make extraordinary discovery deep in the ocean: \u2018That kind of changes our thinking\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kFDf-ZUJkZs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have made a game-changing discovery suggesting that marine bacteria in ocean waters may be able to store carbon, potentially giving the world <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecooldown.com\/outdoors\/tulip-tree-branches-wood-carbon-sequestration\/\">another promising solution<\/a> as we aim to bring Earth\u2019s climate back into balance.<\/p>\n<p>According to a media release by <a href=\"https:\/\/news.uci.edu\/2024\/10\/17\/uc-irvine-scientists-identify-potential-deep-ocean-greenhouse-gas-storage-solution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">UC Irvine News<\/a>, a team from the University of California, Irvine, studied concentrations of carboxyl-rich alicyclic molecules, or CRAM, in Baffin Bay, situated between Canada and Greenland.<\/p>\n<p>The findings, published in the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-024-53132-5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nature Communications<\/a>, have upended what researchers thought they knew, with some molecules stored in deep ocean waters while others quickly rise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have made a game-changing discovery suggesting that marine bacteria in ocean waters may be able to store carbon, potentially giving the world another promising solution as we aim to bring Earth\u2019s climate back into balance. According to a media release by UC Irvine News, a team from the University of California, Irvine, studied concentrations [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}