Can clouds help mitigate global warming? Missing links found in biology of cloud formation over oceans

ScienceDaily: Can Clouds Help Mitigate Global Warming? Missing Links Found in Biology of Cloud Formation Over Oceans Scientists have known for two decades that sulfur compounds that are produced by bacterioplankton as they consume decaying algae in the ocean cycle through two paths. In one, a sulfur compound dimethylsulfide, or DMS, goes into the atmosphere, where it leads to water droplet formation -- the basis of clouds that cool Earth. In the other, a sulfur compound goes into the ocean's food web, where......

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