Amazon River enhances carbon sequestration by the Atlantic oceanPopulation of critically endangered lemurs discovered in Madagascar
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The Amazon river plays an important role in providing nutrients to microorganisms that sequester large amounts of carbon and nitrogen in the Atlantic Ocean, reports new research published in the early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.Scientists in Madagascar have discovered a population of greater bamboo lemurs (Prolemur simus), a critically endangered species of primate, in an area more than 400 kilometers away from its only known refuge, reports Conservation International.
