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Scientists enhance Mother Nature's carbon handling mechanism
11-07-2007 · EurekAlert!Taking a page from Nature herself, a team of researchers developed a method to enhance removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and place it in the Earth's oceans for storage.
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