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Ocean Deserts Could Help Capture CO2 and Mitigate Global Warming

by Minhan Dai, Ya-Wei Luo, Hongyang Lin, Eric P. Achterberg, Thomas J. Browning, Matthew J. Church, Zhongping Lee and Wei-Lei Wang 1 December 20234 December 2023

Various nutrient sources in the upper waters of oceanic subtropical gyres, which are the Earth’s largest oligotrophic ecosystems, play a crucial role in governing the sequestration of atmospheric CO2.

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