Arranged diatoms, a single-celled algae, on a microscope slide in the Cal Academy of Sciences Diatom Collection. Credit: California Academy of Sciences Geology/flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 When you think of ...

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Brown algae take up large amounts of carbon dioxide from the air and release parts of the carbon contained therein back into the environment in mucous form. This mucus is hard to break down for other ...