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How Whales Can Act as Carbon Sinks
Researchers are looking at how whales might play a role in the biological carbon pump. There's two main pathways that my team describes, and we separate them into what are called direct pathways and indirect pathways. We're fairly confident in the numbers we're getting, but in the scheme of things, it's a pretty small contribution.
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