carbon cycle

Since the 1980s, Dr. Joseph M. Prospero, professor of Marine and Atmospheric Chemistry at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, has pioneered studies in the worldwide measurement of aerosols, fine particles suspended in the atmosphere and carried by winds. His team’s work focuses on the aerosol chemistry of the marine […]

Over millions of years carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have been moderated by a finely-tuned natural feedback system — a system that human emissions have recently overwhelmed. A joint University of Hawaii / Carnegie Institution study published in the advance online edition of Nature Geoscience links the pre-human stability to connections between carbon dioxide […]