Warmer water and more carbon dioxide are sending phytoplankton into overdrive

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Warmer water and more carbon dioxide are sending phytoplankton into overdrive

The study, published in Nature by scientists at MIT in the US and the National Oceanography Centre in the UK, found that these colour shifts – though subtle to the human eye – have occurred over 56% of the world’s oceans, mostly in the tropics, and cannot be explained by natural, year-to-year v...