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<big><big>'''Blue-Green Is Life'''</big></big>
<big><big>'''Blue-Green Is Life'''</big></big>


'''"A single kind of blue-green algae in the ocean (Prochlorococcus) produces the oxygen in one of every five breaths we take..."'''
'''"A single kind of blue-green algae in the ocean produces the oxygen in one of every five breaths we take..."'''


[http://education.nationalgeographic.com/activity/save-the-plankton-breathe-freely/ Breathe freely, tiny plankton]
[[File:Plankton Phytoplankton--'Climate Dance'.jpg]]
 
[http://education.nationalgeographic.com/activity/save-the-plankton-breathe-freely/ '''Breathe freely, tiny plankton''']
 
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Plankton_Phytoplankton--%27Climate_Dance%27.jpg '''Plankton Climate Dance''']
 
'''2015'''
 
[http://grist.org/news/big-trouble-ahead-for-oceans-tiny-microbes/ '''Big Trouble Ahead for Ocean Plankton''']
 
 
<big>'''References'''</big>


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Plankton_Phytoplankton--%27Climate_Dance%27.jpg Plankton Climate Dance]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytoplankton Wikipedia] -- Phytoplankton obtain energy through the process of photosynthesis and must therefore live in the well-lit surface layer (termed the euphotic zone) of an ocean, sea, lake, or other body of water. Phytoplankton account for half of all photosynthetic activity on Earth.


Phytoplankton are responsible for much of the oxygen present in the Earth’s atmosphere – half of the total amount produced by all plant life.


See Prochlorococcus






[[File:Plankton Phytoplankton--'Climate Dance'.jpg]]





Revision as of 22:13, 12 February 2016

Blue-Green Is Life

"A single kind of blue-green algae in the ocean produces the oxygen in one of every five breaths we take..."

Plankton Phytoplankton--'Climate Dance'.jpg

Breathe freely, tiny plankton

Plankton Climate Dance

2015

Big Trouble Ahead for Ocean Plankton

References

Wikipedia -- Phytoplankton obtain energy through the process of photosynthesis and must therefore live in the well-lit surface layer (termed the euphotic zone) of an ocean, sea, lake, or other body of water. Phytoplankton account for half of all photosynthetic activity on Earth.

Phytoplankton are responsible for much of the oxygen present in the Earth’s atmosphere – half of the total amount produced by all plant life.

See Prochlorococcus