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The swimmers who take on the Mon, together

They’ve dubbed themselves the Mon’ster Swimmers, and they brave the waters of the Monongahela River in Pittsburgh together from spring until fall. The post The swimmers who take on the Mon, together appeared first on The Allegheny Front.

The ocean is a carbon toilet. Marine heat waves are clogging it.

The planet would be a whole lot hotter if it weren’t for fecal pellets. Across the world’s oceans, tiny organisms known as phytoplankton harvest the sun’s energy, gobbling up carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen. They’re eaten by little animals called…