Energy & Climate
Antarctica’s iron paradox: Why melting ice is weakening the ocean’s biggest carbon sponge, not strengthening it
Antarctica sits atop one of the planet’s most powerful climate levers. The frigid waters encircling the continent soak up a large share of the carbon dioxide humans emit, thanks to vast communities of microscopic plants that turn dissolved carbon into living tissue and, eventually, sinking debris. As the ice sheet melts, it flushes iron into […]
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