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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Vishwam Sankaran

Saving the world’s largest animal can help reduce carbon emissions, study shows

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Scientists have decoded the potential of the world’s largest animals – whales – to sequester the global warming-inducing greenhouse gas carbon dioxide in the ocean.

Previous studies have found that the planet’s oceans are the greatest carbon sinks which absorb nearly a third of the atmosphere’s greenhouse gas emissions.

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