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Why whale poo could be secret to reversing the effects of climate change
2014-07-08 18:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The first success of the environmental movements of the 1960s was to save the whale. Now, with deep irony, whales may be about to save us with their poo. A new scientific report from the University of Vermont, which gathers together several decades of research, shows that the great whales which nearly became extinct in the 20th century and are now recovering in number due to the 1983 ban on whaling may be the enablers of massive carbon sinks via their prodigious production of faeces. Not only...
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