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Posted Tue Jul 28 2009: from Toronto Star:
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Arctic's 'canary in a coal mine' http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1248799886
Without a microscope, most plankton are easy to miss. And when the tiny marine creatures do come into focus, they aren't much to look at.
Until you peer closer, and listen to what they have to say.
Way down near the bottom of the oceans' food chain, animals known as zooplankton drift on the currents, feeding on each other, eating still lower life forms such as bacteria and viruses, or in most cases, grazing on microscopic plant life, called phytoplankton.
As tiny, and as hard to love, as plankton are, scientists studying them say that if global warming makes things go bad for these organisms, the pain will run all the way up the food chain to humans.
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Very Scary Tags: canary in coal mine, ecosystem interrelationships, food crisis, global warming
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