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How might we keep the lights on, water flowing, and natural world vaguely intact? It starts with grabbing innovative ideas/examples to help kick down our limits and inspire a more sustainable world. We implement with rigorous science backed by hard data.
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Tropical forests may be carbon sources, not sinks

Tropical forests may be carbon sources, not sinks | Sustainability Science | Scoop.it
Combination of satellite images and on-the-ground data enables more complete tracking of forest carbon flows.
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"Save The Whales"... their poop holds the key (maybe)!

"Save The Whales"... their poop holds the key (maybe)! | Sustainability Science | Scoop.it

Whale poo could be the secret to reversing the effects of climate change. 


Via Marian Locksley, PIRatE Lab
PIRatE Lab's insight:

So whales can be seen as an ecosystem service.  In this case, a force to sequester carbon.  By saving whales from extinction we (in effect) saved this important function which "rockets" carbon from surface waters (such as krill or other plankton) into deeper waters as speed many orders of magnitude greater than the normal settling rate of typical marine snow.

PIRatE Lab's curator insight, July 8, 2014 8:13 PM

Its all about trying to transport carbon from the surface down to the sediments down deep in the benthos...although "reversing" climate change is a bit overly optimistic.