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A new study suggests 20th century whaling depleted a storehouse of carbon. Whales are huge repositories of carbon. "In marine ecosystems, whales are like forests," said Andrew J. Pershing, a biological oceanographer at the University of Maine in Orono. He estimates 105 million tons of carbon have been transferred from living whales into the atmosphere. [Source: Sid Perkins (ScienceNews)]
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