True “Light Planets”: How Oceans Save the Earth from Overheating

In the next issue of RBC Trends' Green Podcast, we talk about how the oceans give us oxygen, and we repay them with plastic waste

Your browser does not support audio player. In order not to miss new releases, subscribe to the podcast and listen to us in Apple Podcasts, YandexMusic, Google Podcasts, Spotify. And subscribe to our telegram channel. We will be happy to give feedback — write to us at podcasts@rbc.ru, the answers to which questions you could not find and which of the experts would like to hear in our podcast. For sure, everyone has heard that forests are 'light planets', because they produce oxygen and absorb carbon dioxide. In fact, the world's oceans play a leading role in supplying us with oxygen and absorbing carbon. Trees and plants produce only 20% of oxygen. The other 80% comes from the ocean. More precisely, thanks to the phytoplankton that lives in the ocean. It is due to the work of phytoplankton and the ecosystem of the ocean as a whole that the Earth's atmosphere is not heated too quickly. However, mankind, with its oil production, uncontrolled fishing, and plastic pollution, is gradually destroying the ocean...