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Climate Change Is Affecting The Southern Caribbean  October 17,
2012, 12:08 PM  Article written by guest writer Kecia Lynn
What's the Latest Development?  An article in this week's
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences discusses the
findings resulting from 14 years of monthly oceanographic
observations in the southern Caribbean Sea. The results are a
product of the CARIACO Ocean Time-Series Program, a joint
venture involving institutions from the US and Venezuela and
funded by the National Science Foundation. Its focus has been on
the Cariaco Basin, just off the Venezuelan coast.   What's the
Big Idea?  The findings show that the short- and long-term
results of global climate change are just as devastating for the
tropics as they are for other, cooler parts of the
world. Ecosystem changes that led to the collapse