The plankton-climate connection: growing evidence suggests that one-celled marine plants play an important role in determining the earth's climate. (includes related article on Gaia hypothesis)

From: Science News | Date: December 5, 1987| Author: Monastersky, Richard | Copyright information

The Plankton-Climate Connection

For more than 3 1/2 billion years, the earth has provided the exact mix of water, gases and temperature that life, as we know it, requires for existence.

Is this a fortuitous occurrence? Has life been riding around on a huge piece of rock that has luckily furnished suitable accommodation? Or has life taken part in the process, creating for itself a cozy environment that can support plankton, pandas and a panoply of other earthl...

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