Brown algae can absorb a large amount of carbon dioxide from the air and release it back in a mucus form. Different marine organisms find it hard to break the mucus into particles, and therefore the carbon is stored in it for quite a while. Scientists believe brown algae can remove 550 million tonnes a year of carbon dioxide from the air.
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