Marine snow (IMAGE)

University of Bristol

Marine snow

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Surface phytoplankton captures carbon, stores it in cell walls, and transfers the element to the ocean deep after the algae die. Now, researchers are looking at how the seasons might affect this process.

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NOAA National Ocean Service/Wikimedia Commons, public domain.

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