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Australian bushfires spawn massive phytoplankton bloom
September 16, 2021 8:26 am Comments Off on Australian bushfires spawn massive phytoplankton bloomThe Australian bushfires of the 2019/2020 summer had far-reaching effects. It has now been revealed in new research published in Nature that the smoke produced a phytoplankton bloom larger in area than all of Australia, thousands of kilometres away in the Southern Ocean between New Zealand and South America.