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Plankton turns Atlantic into huge carbon sink

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Researchers have discovered that a seasonal bloom of ocean plankton fertilised by the mouth of the Amazon river are pulling in far more CO2 than previously thought. The plankton bloom removes an estimated 20 million tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere each year, not much compared to the amount emitted by human activity, but still a significant number. Oceanographers emphasise, however that "the value of this work is not so much in figuring out how we can use it to humankind's advantage, but in figuring out that the major rivers of the world may be helping to balance the CO2 inventory of the planet in ways we haven't realised before."
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  • i think that each year they should be protected because they're hlepin the enviroment...
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