I love pizza, but the anchovies? Not so much. Little did I know that by skipping the anchovies I may actually be helping protect Earth’s natural CO2 cleansing system. Anchovy poop, new research suggests, is a really effective biocarbon storage pump…Grace Saba of Rutgers University and Deborah Steinberg of Virginia Institute of Marine Science, set out to count anchovy poop pellets in the waters of the Santa Barbara Channel off southern California coast — nice work if you can get it.
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