Emerging Science Note/Carbon-Cleaning Icebergs
Living On Earth’s Jaime Kaiser reports on a new study about Antarctic Icebergs, which suggests that as they melt they release nutrients that cause algal blooms that then sequester carbon from the atmosphere in the deep ocean when they die. (published March 11, 2016)
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