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A chemical sea change may reduce carbon dioxide levels

By Jennifer Cutraro
Globe Correspondent / November 26, 2007

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A Harvard graduate student has a provocative suggestion for slowing global warming: Increase the ocean's natural capacity for absorbing carbon dioxide from the air, in part by speeding up the natural process of weathering rocks. (Full article: 440 words)

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