Testing the climate intervention potential of ocean afforestation using the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt

Ocean afforestation is considered as an important method to remove gigatons of CO2 from the atmosphere. Here the authors use the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt as a natural analogue to show that the efficacy of ocean afforestation is determined by complicated feedbacks with the Earth system.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lennart T. Bach, Veronica Tamsitt, Jim Gower, Catriona L. Hurd, John A. Raven, Philip W. Boyd
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-05-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22837-2