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Antarctic Seafloor Life Is Locking Away a Lot of Carbon, Study Says

2015-09-22 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Yale Environment 360: The loss of sea ice over Antarctic waters has caused certain forms of life to flourish on the seafloor, and those underwater communities are acting as important and unexpected carbon sinks, according to research published in the journal Current Biology. Based on studies of West Antarctic bryozoans aquatic invertebrates sometimes referred to as "moss animals" researchers have found that those and other seafloor organisms could play important roles in accumulating and burying carbon, removing it...

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