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Marine plankton brighten clouds over Southern Ocean
2015-07-17 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] IMAGE:Â Tiny ocean life contribute to clouds directly, by being lofted up with sea spray, and indirectly, by producing sulfurous gas. Credit: Daniel McCoy / University of Washington Nobody knows what our skies looked like…
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Plankton Eating Plastic Caught on Camera for First Time Ever
2015-07-09 16:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: We know that plastic waste leaves a devastating trail, and now for the first time, we can actually witness it impacting the oceans` tiniest creatures. Zooplankton, the foundation of the marine food system, have been caught eating plastic in a new video from Five Films (via New Scientist). The footage, captured under a microscope at the UK-based Plymouth Marine Laboratory, shows copepods consuming--and accumulating--fluorescent polystyrene beads measuring 7 to 30 micrometers in diameter. "We...
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Plankton trawl reveals ten times species
2015-05-28 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: The number of known plankton species floating in our oceans has increased ten-fold thanks to an international study aiming to understand the impact of climate change. Scientists from the Tara Oceans initiative say that this is a first step towards cataloguing the full diversity of marine life, which could in turn help to predict how stocks of fish and other marine resources will be affected in a warmer world. Plankton is crucial to climate modelling, because phytoplankton, tiny plant organisms,...
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Climate change disrupts Arabian Sea little-known voracious plankton
2014-10-10 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Dead zones, or marine areas with levels of dissolved oxygen so low few things can exist, are becoming increasingly common as climate changes and soaring pollution from human populations combine to put record stress on waterways. This trend is alarming in most places, because marine life provides revenue and food security, but in some instances the changes are natural. Landlocked to the north, the Arabian Sea receives less circulation and interchange with outside waters, making most of its life dependent...
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Climate Impacts the 'Dance of the Plankton'
2014-10-01 20:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: NASA and its satellites have been spying on the Earth's plankton for some time now, and experts can now say with some certainty that climate change its truly impacting the predator-prey "dance" of these all-important organisms. Phytoplankton are arguably some of the most important plant-like organisms in the world, filling the Earth's oceans, producing half the planet's oxygen, and serving as a significant carbon dioxide sink to combat climate change. However, new data from NASA satellites...
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