This article is about the marine carbon cycle — a slowly-revolving gear in the earth’s clockworks that sequesters a massive amount of organic carbon.
One path into the marine carbon cycle starts when organic carbon stored in the soils of the earth gets washed into rivers after a rainfall.
Another pathway for CO2 to enter the marine carbon cycle is through marine vegetation — macroalgae (kelp), sea grass, and little ocean-living plants called phytoplankton. Phytoplankton are comprised of different kinds of algae and algae-like things, which create carbohydrates through photosynthesis in the way that kelp and sea grass do…. Read more at Forbes.com
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