The ocean has been absorbing carbon dioxide from fossil fuel emissions at an increasing rate since 1990, while the net uptake of carbon by forests, soils and other land ecosystems has not grown, according to a new study led by scientists at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Carbon sink: the ocean absorbed 35% of fossil CO2 between 1990 and 2019, according to Science, while forests and soils did not increase their absorption.