See, it’s the “marine snow” that does it—these tiny dead plankton and waste particles sink slowly, taking that locked-away carbon deep down. But what my professor showed us in the Chennai lab changes the simple story: it’s the *copepods*, these little grazers, that eat the plankton and package it into dense fecal pellets that sink *fast*, before the carbon can escape back up. The obvious answer is all about the plankton dying, but my life here is staring at microscope slides, watching those pellets drop like stones in a water column experiment. That’s how the sea truly stores our `baap re` levels of CO2.
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