New York Times: Spurred by ocean currents, millions of microscopic plants, or phytoplankton, color the waters of the North Atlantic with strokes of blue, turquoise, green, and brown in the springtime. Every spring, the waters of the North Atlantic revive as the days lengthen and phytoplankton explode in number. For decades, scientists therefore thought they understood what sets off the annual phytoplankton bloom: spring sunshine. But a study published this month in Science upends the prevailing view, reporting...
URL: http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/12/a-kick-start-for-phytoplankton/
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