Ocean fertilization
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ocean-fertilization-220-3610816
title:
Ocean fertilization
text:
Ocean fertilization or ocean nourishment is a type of technology for carbon dioxide removal from the ocean based on the purposeful introduction of plant nutrients to the upper ocean to increase marine food production and to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Ocean nutrient fertilization, for example iron fertilization, could stimulate photosynthesis in phytoplankton. The phytoplankton would convert the ocean's dissolved carbon dioxide into carbohydrate, some of which would sink into the
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Type of climate engineering
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_fertilization
date created:
2006-04-18T15:28:06Z
date modified:
2024-09-13T15:58:07Z
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