The Irish Examiner View: It’s still up to us

The demands on science, as today’s crisis underlines, are unrelenting. Once this crisis passes, scientists will still be faced with a far bigger challenge: Trying to sustain life and lifestyles without destroying the planet. Another advance in that do-or-die challenge has been published.

An American research institute, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, has found that about twice as much carbon sinks into the ocean each year than had been previously estimated.