NASA | Earth Science Week: The Ocean's Green Machines

"The Ocean's Green Machines" is Episode 3 in the six-part series "Tides of Change", exploring amazing NASA ocean science to celebrate Earth Science Week 2009.

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One tiny marine plant makes life on Earth possible: phytoplankton. These microscopic photosynthetic drifters form the basis of the marine food web, they regulate carbon in the atmosphere, and are responsible for half of the photosynthesis that takes place on this planet. Earths climate is changing at an unprecedented rate, and as our home planet warms, so does the ocean. Warming waters have big consequences for phytoplankton and for the planet.

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• space
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• earth
• science
• week
• 2009
• ocean
• sea
• water
• marine
• life
• plankton

[kristianjl]

I just love how some people think science is just a political opinion.

[littleracers]

So they take 10 years of data over the billions of years the Earth has been in exscitance, and they want you to buy Al Gore's green credits to save the Earth. 10 years people. We are going to regulate and tax and wring our hands over ten years of data!

[klubban123]

BAAAAJS, hahahHAHAHAH

[klubban123]

BAJ

[Killergrayback]

Don't you just love mother nature?!

[TheJose777777]

O equilibrio da terra passa por promenores que para uma consciência dela como sêr vivo, precisamos de observar tambem aquilo de bom que a ciência moderna nos apresenta..

[Ahvpp]

Why they don t show this on regular TV?

[GoneBad666]

Earth Science Week  was apparently Global Warming week

[saleall]

we have to much ocean!

[ThreeDimension]

thats because we have :S