Phytoplankton Disappearing at an Alarming Rate A study carried out by marine ecologist Daniel Boyce, of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, appearing this week in the journal Nature, pulls the alarm handle on the decline of phytoplankton.
In the last century, phytoplankton started dying at a fast rate, and since 1950, 40 percent of the phytoplankton around the globe has disappeared. Boyce says that phytoplankton represents half of the world’s plants and its disappearance will destroy the climate's fragile balance, that between the animals of the oceans and ultimately every living thing in the seas. “It's hard to really imagine phytoplankton could be so important because most people don't see them in their daily lives. They're microscopic and they live out at sea. But everything that happens to them affects the entire marine food chain, including us.” Read More: http://tinyurl.com/2fdh63q -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WebTV Dawgs/Dittos" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/webtv-pals?hl=en.
