Climate News Network: Some of the most minute forms of marine life may have a significant effect both on more developed creatures and on the oceans' ability to absorb carbon dioxide.
An international team of scientists has found that the smallest species of plankton thrive when levels of carbon dioxide (CO2), the main greenhouse gas from human sources, rise and increase the acidity of the oceans.
Writing in Biogeosciences, a journal of the European Geosciences Union, they say this could knock the marine food web...