Carbon fixation by phytoplankton in the open ocean plays a key role in the global carbon cycle though that role is not fully understood. Until…
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Just a couple of years ago common wisdom was that there might be 30,000 species of plankton in the surface ocean. The expedition described in…
Overfished and under-protected: Oceans on the brink of catastrophic collapse By Tom Levitt, for CNN, updated 12:11 PM EDT, Fri March 22, 2013 In many ways,…
Beginning 600 hundred million years ago and for hundreds of millions of years plankton bloomed. They harvested CO2 from the primordial atmosphere and stored energy…
Plant life in the world’s oceans has become less productive since the early 1980s, absorbing less carbon, which may in turn impact the Earth’s carbon…