Fate of marine carbon confirms importance of polar oceans
Wednesday, August 3, 2016 - 17:31
in Earth & Climate
About the same amount of atmospheric carbon that goes into creating plants on land goes into the bodies of tiny marine plants known as plankton. When the plants die, bacteria feed on their sinking corpses and return their carbon to the seawater. When plankton sink deep enough before being eaten, the carbon can remain trapped […]