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TIL about the changing ocean (part 1)

TILclimate

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The Ocean Is a Carbon Storage Space

Life in the ocean does what all life eventually does when it dies. It tends to either be consumed by some other organs, but eventually it goes to the bottom of the ocean. There's the snow of life that ultimately is sequestered in the deep sea. That's where most of the carbon on the planet actually is. Some of it becomes limestone, calcium carbonate. The oceans are now taking in more carbon than they emit.

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