Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Ocean warming might hit microbes' carbon storage capacity

The Times of India

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-02-14/global-warming/31060197_1_ocean-warming-atmospheric-carbon-microbes

Climate change is warming the oceans and preventing water layers from mixing, which could upset the carbon storage capacity of microbes and plankton.

As the ocean surface warms, evidence shows that it will become more "stratified", or confined to layers that mix less than they did in the past.


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