Where does carbon dioxide go?

Diagram showing what happens to carbon dioxide. Forty percent stays in the atmosphere, thirty percent is taken up through land cover, and thirty percent ends up in the ocean.

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Some of the additional carbon dioxide that is released into the atmosphere stays in the air, while some is taken up by plants through their process of photosynthesis, and some is taken up by the ocean, which is making seawater more acidic.