iron rich whale droppings Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 10:41:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Link Between Whale Droppings and Carbon Sequestration Discovered https://www.greenoptimistic.com/whale-droppings-carbon-sequestration-20100426/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/whale-droppings-carbon-sequestration-20100426/#respond Mon, 26 Apr 2010 10:41:06 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=7448 The Australian Antarctic Division performed a research in this area, and found out that the whale poo is very rich in iron - about some 10 million times richer than sea water, as Steve Nicol, one of the scientists, said: "The plants love it and it actually becomes a way of taking carbon out of the atmosphere."

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