"Low-nitrate regime could accelerate climate change, as nitrate plays an essential role in ocean's biological pump, which takes CO2 from atmosphere via photosynthesis & locks it away at depth when phytoplankton and animals that eat it die"
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Researchers say the Arctic Ocean crossed a biological tipping point in 2009, when nitrate levels in the water suddenly started dropping due to a drastic reduction in sea ice extent.
