With Every Breath You Take, Thank the Ocean

Kalila Morsink, Smithsonian Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture Plastics & Pollution

With Every Breath You Take, Thank the Ocean
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When was the last time you thought about your breathing? Take a breath right now and think about it. You breathe because you need oxygen, a gas which makes up 21 percent of the Earth’s atmosphere. All that oxygen has to come from somewhere. You might already know that it comes from photosynthetic organisms like plants. But did you know that most of the oxygen you breathe comes from organisms in the ocean?

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