Algae dust feast
Australia’s dust storms inadvertently have massive environmental benefit.
Written by Ruth Carruthers
Posted 10:07 GMT on October 7, 2009 Comments (2)
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It been a bit of a Marmite situation over in Australia recently; whilst residents along the east coast have hated the recent dust storms, the algae in the Pacific Ocean have been loving it!
The dust storms blew in from the desert outback two weeks go, engulfing most of Australia’s east coast in a blanket of red dust before 1 million tonnes of this desert debris was dumped into the ocean.
This is great news if you’re algae though as it has provided an iron rich feast for the sea life in the area. Even better news is that as the algae feed and multiply, they absorb carbon dioxide from both the air and water which can only be a good thing right?
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