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When the ocean changes, the planet changes — and it all starts with microbes, says biological oceanographer Angelicque White. Backed by decades of data, White shares how scientists use these ancient microorganisms as a crucial barometer of ocean health — and how we might rejuvenate them as marine temperatures steadily rise.
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It really helps me to improve my English. thank you
Many a times facts are needed to convince our logical beings. Destruction is obvious but ignoring that builds the ignorance.
Thank you for your clear explanations and your hard work. This kind of knowledge is crucial in our time.
As a human race, we really need to stop interfering with organisms and other life forms. We’re inhibiting the ability for evolution to take charge and to adapt to changes in living conditions. We just need to let evolution do what evolution does best, and leave life other than our own to fend for itself. Because over time, it will adapt, and it will be able to thrive, but not if we’re stopping its ability to adapt in the first place.
Question: Will the Carolinas will be under water in the next 10- 15 years?
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, no. However, things could be getting pretty rough in areas around Charleston, SC and Willmington, NC for example. If all the ice on Earth melts, the western half of the Carolina’s will remain.
Got it, we don’t want change because we want our clams to be beneficial to us when we eat them.
Very shellfish.
LMAO
I really appreciate this lecture and advocation but phytoplankton aren’t plants…
Sadie Phy you’re thinking of zooplankton perhaps? They utilize chlorophyll and are autotrophs (produce their own food) so it makes sense to refer to algae as a plant probably. I just finished a biology course last semester, but I could be misremembering.
Your Video is Politically Correct!
Wow, a ocean scientist that makes sense … or at least speaks on a level the average intelligent person can understand, without trying to impress us with research jargon. Plus, she deserves credit for reporting some positives rather than focusing on the typical doom and gloom glorified in the media..
Hacks and quacks
coulda had more evidence to support her claims about acidification’s effect on animals and thus us.
https://youtu.be/KaUmDZEAhbE
Climate has been changing since the birth of the earth.. and will continue to no matter how uch hybris humans get. There is nothing out of the ordinary. The climate goes in cycles back and forth. Nothing indicates the current trajectory will even continue.
Wake up girl
The top 1 km of oceans have an approximate mass of 3.6 X 10 to the power 17 tons, All the carbon in the atmosphere is about 3 X 10 to the power 12 tons. If all the CO2 were to dissolve into the oceans, their impact on ocean ph would be undetectable. Perhaps whatever decrease in ocean ph is caused by other factors. Ocean volcanoes?