Plans to curb climate change by using plankton to draw carbon dioxide into the world's oceans have been boosted.
A spectacular natural algal bloom in the Southern Ocean helped to "lock" carbon away into deep sea sediments, according to a study in Nature journal.
But the amount of carbon stored was not nearly as high as some artificial "geo-engineering" schemes had predicted.
Plans to "seed" plankton blooms by adding iron to oceans are strongly opposed by many green groups.
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