Pat Shingleton for October 15, 2009
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Stanford University researchers deposited 6 tons of iron particles last summer in the southern Atlantic Ocean. The experiment was to fertilize phytoplankton, accelerating its blooming process. Blooming phytoplankton assists in soaking up carbon dioxide from the air that activates a sinking process that attaches damaging carbon dioxide to the bloom, sending it to the ocean floor. NewScientist.com reports an army of sea crustaceans called copepods ruined the experiment. The copepods devoured the blooming phytoplankto. Larger crustaceans, amphipods, ate them. Squid and whales ate the amphipods. The food-cycle prevented CO2 from hitting the ocean’s depths.
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