Only mother nature knows how to fertilize the ocean

Natural input of nutrients works ten times better than manmade injections.

Quirin Schiermeier

Blooms of algae created by pumping nutrients into the ocean can suck up at least ten times more carbon dioxide (CO₂) from the atmosphere than was previously thought. But the findings lend no support to controversial schemes to encourage such blooms in order to reduce global warming, the authors warn.