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Phytoplankton rapidly disappearing from the Indian Ocean

Science News, 04 Feb 2016.

A rapid loss of phytoplankton threatens to turn the western Indian Ocean into an “ecological desert,” a new study warns. The research reveals that phytoplankton populations in the region fell an alarming 30 percent over the last 16 years.  A decline in ocean mixing due to warming surface waters is to blame for that phytoplankton plummet, researchers propose in Geophysical Research Letters.  Read the full story in Science News.

Could phytoplankton populations be threatened by warming seas? Image: Plankton on Wikimedia, Author: Uwe Kils Creative Commons

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