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Sea Otters Fight Climate Change

Sep 11, 2012

We’ve hit the big time, getting mocked in the Onion!

Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, found that kelp forests were able to absorb 12 times more carbon dioxide in the presence of sea otters, a result of the aquatic mammals preying on kelp-eating sea urchins. What do you think?

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