Claim: ‘Why whale poo could be the secret to reversing the effects of climate change’
'A new scientific report from the University of Vermont, which gathers together several decades of research, shows that the great whales may be the enablers of massive carbon sinks via their prodigious production of feces. Not only do the nutrients in whale poo feed other organisms, from phytoplankton upwards – and thereby absorb the carbon we humans are pumping into the atmosphere – even in death the sinking bodies of these massive animals create new resources on the sea bed, where entire species exist solely to graze on rotting whale.'
