Posted on Christian Science Monitor: 07 Jun 2012 — New NASA discovery: Researchers funded by NASA were surprised to discover phytoplankton blooms flourishing under thick layers of Arctic ice, upending preconceptions about Arctic ecosystems. By Charles Q. Choi, OurAmazingPlanet Contributor Looking down from the US Coast Guard icebreaker Healy, scientists
Month: June 2012
Ocean babies on acid
Posted on EPOCA: 7 Jun 2012 Published 7 June 2012 Science What happens to the delicate larvae of ocean creatures when they’re exposed to increasing acid levels in the ocean? That’s the question marine biologists Steve Palumbi of Stanford and Eric Sanford of UC Davis are trying to answer through experiments