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Speaking of sea water…. most of the photosynthesis on the planet occurs in oceanic microbes.
“From the Arctic to the tropics, microbes are busy sequestering carbon in the ocean in volumes previously unimagined.
New findings have revealed that massive amounts of carbon are converted into “inedible” forms of organic carbon that remain out of circulation for thousands of years, effectively sequestering the carbon by removing it from the ocean food chain. According to Jiao Nianzhi, a microbial ecologist here at Xiamen University, the amount stored is tremendous: “It’s really huge. It’s comparable to all the carbon dioxide in the air.” (The Observatory)
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