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Image : Proposals Emerge to Transfer Excess Carbon into the Ocean

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SAVED BY THE SALPS?—Another proposed scheme to reduce CO2 levels would promote swarms of transparent animals called salps, whose heavy fecal pellets sink fast, ferrying carbon to the depths. (Photo by Laurence Madin, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

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Last updated: September 3, 2009
 


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