A 2010 study conducted by the Project published in Nature Geoscience revealed that the world's oceans absorb 2.3 billion metric tonnes of carbon dioxide. On 5 December 2011 analysis released from the project claimed carbon dioxide from fossil-fuel burning jumped by the largest amount on record in 2010 to 5.9 percent from a growth rate in the 1990s closer to 1 percent annually.
A 2010 study by the Project, published in Nature Geoscience, indicated that the world's oceans absorbed about 2.3 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide. In December 2011, an analysis from the project stated that carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels increased substantially in 2010 to 5.9 percent, which was a more rapid growth rate than in the 1990s.