There's good news for folks worried that atmospheric CO
2 levels in the Arctic have
passed 400ppm for the first time: a vast CO
2-sucking phytoplankton bloom has been discovered beneath Arctic ice – and it may thank global warming for its presence.
"This wasn't just any phytoplankton bloom," Stanford University marine scientist Kevin Arrigo
told The Christian Science Monitor. "It was literally the most intense phytoplankton bloom I've ever seen in my 25 years of doing this type of research."
