Brownalgae removes carbondioxide from the air and stores it in slime PNASNews
from the air every year—almost the amount of Germany's entire annual greenhouse gas emissions.
"The excretions of brown algae are very complex and therefore incredibly complicated to measure," says first author Hagen Buck-Wiese from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen."However, we have managed to develop a method to analyze them in detail." Fucoidan is a recalcitrant molecule."The fucoidan is so complex that it is very hard for other organisms to use it. No one seems to like it." As a result, the carbon from the fucoidan does not return to the atmosphere quickly."This makes the brown algae particularly good helpers in removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in the long term—for hundreds to thousands of years."
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