A major climate hope in Antarctica just melted away

For years, researchers studying the Southern Ocean have pointed to one possible upside in an otherwise troubling climate outlook. A widely discussed idea known as iron fertilization proposed that as Antarctica warms and glaciers melt, iron trapped in the ice would be released into nearby waters. That iron would fuel blooms of microscopic algae, which absorb heat trapping carbon dioxide as they grow.

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