Concerns over carbon credit scheme to fertilise the oceans

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US company, Planktos, is preparing to fertilise the eastern Pacific with powdered iron ore to create an artificial algal bloom in an attempt to sequester carbon. It hopes to use the trial to gain accreditation for carbon credits, but critics have called the plan reckless.

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