NASA | Massive Phytoplankton Bloom Discovered Under Arctic Sea Ice

Scientists have made a biological discovery in Arctic Ocean waters as dramatic and unexpected as finding a rainforest in the middle of a desert. A NASA-sponsored expedition punched through three-foot thick sea ice to find waters richer in microscopic marine plants, essential to all sea life, than any other ocean region on Earth.

The discovery is the result of an oceanographic expedition called ICESCAPE, or Impacts of Climate on EcoSystems and Chemistry of the Arctic Pacific Environment. The NASA-sponsored mission explored the seas along Alaska's western and northern coasts onboard a U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker during the summers of 2010 and 2011. The finding reveals a new consequence of the Arctic's warming climate and provides an important clue to understanding the impacts of a changing climate and environment on the Arctic Ocean and its ecology.

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[Squagnut]

Wrong. The carbon that's already in circulation (in the atmosphere and biosphere) is of no consequence compared to the fossil carbon we're digging up and reintroducing into the atmosphere.

Fossil fuels are part of the problem, and fuckwits like you are the other part.

[mediumawlful]

Prayer meetings will fix this.

[42HendrickPower]

link/info supporting your claim?

[BigotesMcbuff]

Just when you thought climate change couldn't get scarier, the last pristine parts of the earth now add to the Greenhouse gas problem. For those apologists of industry, the effects of the PETM is almost insignificant compared to the result of the use of fossil fuels and human population explosion of 2 to 7 Billion in the last half century or so. To think that the effect of food, transport and waste production would be almost nil is naive to say the least.

[Squagnut]

No doubt Earth's climate will go through many changes before the sun finally dies. The problem is not what will happen *eventually*, the problem is that there is compelling evidence that human activity is making the planet less hospitable for humans *now*. If the environment changes then creatures well suited to that change will thrive. The planet doesn't care what state it's in - Mother Venus never complains about her deadly atmosphere.

[meee2014]

they are a good thing they consume carbon and produce oxygen, this is due to the rise in carbon levels in recent decade and this is a way mother earth keeps life in balance

[meee2014]

mother earth is great at balancing stuff out, the more carbon produced the more and faster the carbon consuming organisms grow and the more oxygen they produce and will eventually balance everything out. it would also be great if we would stop cutting down rainforests on the massive scale.

[Lonehangman]

Not sure is your sarcastic or being realistic...hmm

[CaptCrewSock]

I'm not a whale activist but couldn't this be a sign of whale populations declining over many years allowing larger stocks like this to form?

[Steve Kidd]

call me an idiot ! i heard the same story over 15 years ago and it was blamed on fertilizer runoff from farming.....now its global warming....OK ....NASA , i promise to kill my children and save the tiger...thankyou for panicking me in to action

[leezeris]

NASA is more corrupt than churches

[2GreenBlue]

If we have NASA why does religion still exist, its a shame. NASA should be the NEW CHURCH. People should donate to NASA instead of a random corrupt church. Damn it why is there so much ignorance in the world, its time for a change.