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Ocean carbon

How Carbon Moves Between the Air and the Ocean

Every day, the planet runs a huge exchange program at the sea surface. Carbon slips out of the air, into the ocean, back to the air again and onward through currents, chemistry and living things. The motion is invisible, though its effects reach from climate to coral reefs to the fish on dinner plates. The…