Whale Poo to Fight C02

NBC‘s Rob Mayeda talks about an interesting new study by the Australian Antarctic Division that links whale poo to beneficial blooms of phytoplankton in the South Atlantic. Phytoplankton not only serves as the root source of the marine food chain, by using sunlight and carbon dioxide (a greenhouse gas) phytoplankton grow and release oxygen back into the atmosphere. Phytoplankton help regulate the ocean’s ability to act as a ‘carbon sink’. Whale poo is said to be 10 million times more efficient in yielding high iron content as opposed to natural sea water – making it a perfect phytoplankton producing element, and some could say a natural way to fight global warming – by keeping whale populations growing and… well fed.