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Green Groups Oppose Plan to Curb CO2 With Plankton

Posted Nov 5, 07 4:20 PM CST in World,  Technology,  Science & Health 

(Newser) – An environmental coalition today came out against a project that hopes to slow the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, by stimulating ocean plankton to consume the global warming-linked greenhouse gas. The groups decried the plan by an Australian company to pump nutrients into the sea between the Philippines and Borneo as "experimental ocean dumping" by "carbon-trading profiteers."

The coalition criticized such "risky technologies" in an ETC Group news release. Another company developing a similar effort admitted a need for more control last month, citing "important questions of effectiveness, environmental impact and corporate conduct in all ocean fertilization projects" that "need to be addressed as these projects move forward," CNET News reports.

Sources CNET, ETC Group

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The Sulu Archipelago. A company is planning to pump nutrients into the Sulu sea to feed plankton that consume carbon dioxide.   (Magnum Photos)
A herd of elephants walk backdropped by Mt. Kilimanjaro in Amboseli game park in Kenya in this May 21, 2006 file photo. Global warming isn't just a matter of melting ice bergs and polar bears chasing...   (Associated Press)
Ocean Plankton bloom.   (Getty Images)
Sitangkai island. Sulu Archipelago, Badjao are sea gypsies, live in homes on stilts. (PAR81372)   (Magnum Photos)
This is an undated handout photo of a polar bear taken in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. More than two-thirds of the world's polar bears will be killed off by 2050 - the species completely gone...   (Associated Press)
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