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Plankton Can Absorb CO2, But at a Cost to the Health of Marine Life

Climate Crisis Coalition
By Alister Doyle, Reuters, November 12, 2007.
“Tiny ocean plankton can reduce global warming by soaking up unexpectedly large amounts of carbon dioxide but their carbon-bloated cells might damage marine food chains, scientists said on Sunday. Experiments [the results of which have been published in the journal Nature] in a Norwegian fjord showed that [...]