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asserts that 55 million years ago, Azolla covered the Arctic - at the time a hot, tropical, freshwater environment - and then sank, permanently sequestering teratons of carbon that would otherwise have contributed to the planet's greenhouse effect. This ended a warming event that reached warmer than present-day averages, eventually causing the formation of ice sheets in Antarctica and the current "icehouse period".

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