Sea otters worth $700 million in carbon credits - environment - 07 July 2010 - New Scientist

Want to slow global warming? Save a sea otter. So says Chris Wilmers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, whose team has calculated that the animals remove at least 0.18 kilograms of carbon from the atmosphere for every square metre of occupied coastal waters.

That means that if sea otters were restored to healthy populations along the coasts of North America they could collectively lock up a mammoth 1010 kg of carbon – currently worth more than $700 million on the European carbon-trading market. Wilmers explained this at the annual meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology in Edmonton, Canada, this month.

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Has California’s Sweetheart, Senator Ma’am, suddenly fallen out of favor on the Left Coast? A new Field Poll suggests that the upcoming Senate election has California voters reassessing their incumbent — and that doesn’t bode well at all for Barbara Boxer. Even before the campaign gets into high gear, Boxer finds herself underwater in both job approval and favorability

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