Carbon Intake (IMAGE)

Columbia Climate School

Carbon Intake

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A living foraminifera, a type of marine plankton, that researchers grew in laboratory culture. To reconstruct past climate, fossilized specimens are collected from deep sea sediments.

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Bärbel Hönisch/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

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