{"id":658,"date":"2024-11-02T17:09:34","date_gmt":"2024-11-02T17:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forealis.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=658"},"modified":"2025-01-31T16:17:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T16:17:52","slug":"biome-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.forealis.com\/index.php\/biome-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocean biome"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With the largest mass and surface, world\u2019s oceans are largest store of carbon on earth (save the deep carbon in earth\u2019s core, mantle and lithospheric crust). Through the process of carbonation, oceans already absorb about 30 % of all man-made CO<sub>2<\/sub> emissions every year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, the \u201cblue carbon capture\u201d initially appeared promising. However, when this path was pursued further, it turned out that ocean\u2019s absorption capacity is limited, and we can already see the negative consequences \u2013 ocean acidification from excess carbonic acid. This impacts all marine life forming shells and skeletons (corals, mollusks, and many planktons) and already disrupts several oceanic nutrient cycles. Most visible impact of this is the coral reef bleaching (reduction in carbonate ions hinders development of coral\u2019s calcium carbonate structure).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hence, any technology aimed at increasing CO2 absorption into oceans has a high likelihood of being harmful and truly a two-edged sword \u2013 particularly if done at scale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the largest mass and surface, world\u2019s oceans are largest store of carbon on earth (save the deep carbon in earth\u2019s core, mantle and lithospheric crust). Through the process of carbonation, oceans already absorb about 30 % of all man-made CO2 emissions every year. Therefore, the \u201cblue carbon capture\u201d initially appeared promising. However, when this &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forealis.com\/index.php\/biome-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ocean biome&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1050,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"folder":[12],"class_list":["post-658","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forealis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forealis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forealis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forealis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forealis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.forealis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1971,"href":"https:\/\/www.forealis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/658\/revisions\/1971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forealis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forealis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forealis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/folder?post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}