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The ocean’s Biological Carbon Pump

Tiny ocean plants absorb CO? via photosynthesis, then sink or get eaten, moving carbon from surface waters to deep ocean—key to Earth's carbon cycle.

Illustration depicting the ocean’s Biological Carbon Pump (Illustration by Natalie Renier, © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

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