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Iron Fertilization Of Oceans: A Real Option For Carbon Dioxide Reduction?

ScienceDaily (Jun. 10, 2007) — Over the last weeks, commercial efforts have been launched to manipulate a portion of the Pacific Ocean to increase the uptake of atmospheric carbon dioxide by artificially enhancing phytoplankton activity. A research vessel is currently sailing to the Galapagos Sea to seed an area larger than Puerto Rico with tonnes of iron, to stimulate the CO2 sequestration into the deep ocean. However, such iron fertilization is also a way of generating carbon offsets, whereby CO2 polluters can buy “ecosystem restoration credits” and shrink their carbon footprint.

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Nature gave us oil from algae; perhaps we should try Nature’s way again

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