Sentences with phrase «encourage plankton blooms»

There was a carbon - offsets project, recently abandoned, to seed ocean dead spots with iron to encourage plankton blooms.

Painting roofs white, he says, is a much different approach than spilling iron into the ocean to encourage plankton blooms (which soak up carbon dioxide).

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BURY IT UNDER THE SEA Some research groups have tried fertilizing the ocean with iron to encourage massive plankton blooms that suck carbon dioxide from the air.