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Melting ice opens `carbon sink [1]

In what can be seen as a positive impact of global warming, large blooms of tiny marine plants called phytoplankton that can absorb carbon dioxide from atmosphere are flourishing in the area opened up by massive ice melting in Antarctica.

Publication Date: 
11/11/2009
Asian Age (New Delhi) [2]
Tags:
Climate Change [3], Glacial Melt [4], Carbon Sinks [5], Antarctica [6]
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