An estimated 8.3 billion tons of non-biodegradable plastic has been produced over the last
65 years. Much of this is not recycled and is disposed into the natural environment, has a …

For thousands of years humankind has sought to explore our oceans. Evidence of this early
intrigue dates back to 130,000 BCE, but the advent of remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) in …

Seabed-hugging flows called turbidity currents are the volumetrically most important process
transporting sediment across our planet and form its largest sediment accumulations. We …

The detailed structure and composition of turbiditic channel-mouth lobes is still largely
unknown because they commonly lie at abyssal water depths, are very thin and are …

The largest canyons on Earth occur on the seafloor, and seabed sediment flows called
turbidity currents play a key role in carving these submarine canyons. However, the …

Abstract The Congo River, the second largest river in the world, is a major source of organic
matter for the deep Atlantic Ocean because of the connection of its estuary to the deep …

Fires in Africa account for more than half of global fire-carbon emissions but the long-term
evolution of fire activity and its link to global climate change remains elusive. Paleofire …

Abstract The Congo River is the second largest river by discharge in the world and a major
source of element inputs into the South Atlantic Ocean. Yet, the element fluxes and transport …

Chemosynthetic ecosystems are scattered in the deep ocean, harbouring highly specialized
communities, among which the degree of connectivity and dispersal is scarcely studied. This …

Geochemical data (total organic carbon-TOC content, δ 13 Corg, C: N, Rock-Eval analyses)
were obtained on 150 core tops from the Angola basin, with a special focus on the Congo …