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Study: Antarctic ice melt actually slowing climate change
AFP
Wednesday, Nov 11th, 2009
Global warming has been blamed for the alarming
loss of ice shelves in Antarctica, but a new study says newly-exposed
areas of sea are now soaking up some of the carbon gas that
causes the problem.
Scientists led by Lloyd Peck of the British Antarctic Survey
(BAS) said that atmospheric and ocean carbon is being gobbled
up by microscopic marine plants called phytoplankton, which
float near the surface.
After absorbing the carbon through the natural process of photosynthesis,
the phytoplankton are eaten, or otherwise die and sink to the
ocean floor.
The phenomenon, known as a carbon sink, has been spotted in
areas of open water exposed by the recent, rapid melting of
several ice shelves -- vast floating plaques of ice attached
to the shore of the Antarctic peninsula.
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