Jellyfish may save the planet from global warming.......

Oceans are instrumental in handling the amount of carbon dioxide produced by human activity every year, absorbing close to 25 percent of all emissions. 

 

In turn, many sea-dwelling organisms take part in the absorption and conversion cycle of CO2, including jellyfish. 

 

A new study posits that jellyfish are much more prominent players in the cycle than previously believed.

The “sinking speed of jelly remains is much, much higher than what we expected, about 500 to 1600 meters per day,” he said.

 

Why is this important? Faster sinking organisms have less time to decay en route to the ocean floor, storing the CO2 released through gradual decay away from the atmosphere for potential millennia.