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Most CO2 from Australia’s megafires has been offset by algal blooms

15 September 2021

About 80 per cent of the carbon dioxide released by Australia’s huge wildfires of 2019-2020 was captured by ocean algal blooms that grew due to the iron-rich ash

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Most CO2 from Australia’s megafires has been offset by algal blooms

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