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Iron-rich dust fuelled 4 million years of ice ages [1]

Dust is all that's needed to plunge the world into an ice age. When blown into the sea, the iron it contains can fertilise plankton growth on a scale large enough to cause global temperatures to drop. The finding adds support to the idea of staving off climate change by simulating the effects of dust - perhaps by sprinkling the oceans with iron filings.

Publication Date: 
06/08/2011
Fred Pearce [2]
New Scientist [3]
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Tags:
Climate Change [4], Climate Science [5], Global Warming [6], Deserts [7], Aerosols [8], Oceans and Seas [9], North Atlantic Ocean [10], Ocean Fertilization [11]

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[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/oceans-and-seas
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/north-atlantic-ocean
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/ocean-fertilization