Carbon sink at South Pole has grown recently, historical collections reveal
Posted by ScienceDaily: Oceanography News on 21 February, 2011
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By studying collections of a marine bryozoan that date back to a famous 1901 expedition to the South Pole, researchers have found that those organisms were growing steadily up until 1990, when their growth more than doubled. The data provide the highest-latitude record of a century of growth and some of the first evidence that polar carbon sinks may be increasing....