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Could Whale Poop Help Cool the Planet?

Season 50

Marine biologists unravel how whales and their poop trap carbon and feed the ocean.

Whales are massive reservoirs of carbon and they are key to the health of our oceans. But there are fewer whales — and less whale poop — in the ocean today than before industrial whaling took off.

AIR DATE 5/12/23

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