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- Ocean eddies move important nutrients around the ocean and keep marine life healthy.
- Researchers believe this distribution of nutrients could also help sustain carbon storage in subtropical oceans.
- These eddies create a “nutrient relay”, which helps maintain populations of phytoplankton which play a role in the ocean’s ability to sequester carbon.
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