"Hold your breath," says inventor Tom Zimmerman. "This is the world without plankton." These tiny organisms produce two-thirds of our planet's oxygen — without them, life as we know it wouldn't exist. In this talk and tech demo, Zimmerman and cell engineer Simone Bianco hook up a 3D microscope to a drop of water and take you scuba diving with plankton. Learn more about these mesmerizing creatures and get inspired to protect them against ongoing threats from climate change.
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Totally fantastic biological live stream tour guide! And it’s inconceivably silly how some governments and corporations still continue to advocate fossil fuels for use instead of solar. Anti ecological to say the least. Great talk!
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Their temperature timeline went back only goes back to 1960. Go back further in time (500 years to when Greenland was green and grapes were raised in England) and you would see that temperatures were HIGHER than they are today. Climate change is always happening, even BEFORE we started to use lots of fossil fuels.
mydh122 the point is we are accelerating that process
Nope, totally wrong. Animal agriculture is the biggest contributor of climate change. Wake up!!!
That Italian accent is so cool. Go science go.