Floating robots reveal just how much airborne dust fertilizes the Southern Ocean—a key climate 'shock absorber'
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Floating robots reveal just how much airborne dust fertilizes the Southern Ocean—a key climate 'shock absorber'

The Southern Ocean, a region critical to Earth's climate, hosts vast blooms of microscopic ocean plants known as phytoplankton. They form the very basis of the Antarctic food web.