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2011-10-14 09:15:53


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2011-06-22 22:19:56

The world's oceans support vast populations of single-celled organisms (phytoplankton) that are responsible, through photosynthesis, for removing about half of the carbon dioxide that is produced by burning fossil fuels â€“ as much as the rainforests and all other terrestrial systems combined.

2011-06-08 05:30:00

Geologists at MIT and Harvard have discovered fossils along the Alaska-Canada border that reveal protective plates for microscopic organisms.

2011-05-10 16:02:52

The acidification of the worldâ€™s oceans could have major consequences for the marine environment.

2010-10-22 08:11:03


2010-07-01 14:01:58


2010-02-12 09:27:15

Evidence from the Challenger Deep â€“ the deepest surveyed point in the world's oceans â€“ suggests that tiny single-celled creatures called foraminifera living at extreme depths of more than ten kilometers build their homes using material that sinks down from near the ocean surface.

2009-01-07 08:30:11


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