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A new view of oceanic phytoplankton

Phytoplankton comprise the forests of the sea, and are responsible for providing nearly half of the oxygen that sustains life on Earth including our own….

Termite killer lingers as potent greenhouse gas

The concentration of the gas rose at a rate of 4 to 6 percent per year between 1978 and 2007, to a global atmospheric abundance by the end of 2007 of about 1.5…

Coral reefs may start dissolving when atmospheric CO2 doubles

A study to be published online March 13, 2009 in Geophysical Research Letters by researchers at the Carnegie Institution and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem…

Lobster Traps Going High Tech

New England lobstermen have gone high tech by adding low-cost instruments to their lobster pots that record bottom temperature and provide data that could help…

Dust deposited in oceans may carry elements toxic to marine algae

Researchers discovered the toxic effects during a study of how phytoplankton respond to atmospheric aerosols deposited in the northern Red Sea. The results…

New Deep-Sea Coral Discovered on NOAA-Supported Mission

Six of these species may represent entirely new genera, a remarkable feat given the broad classification a genus represents. A genus is a major category in the…

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