HARROW: The Tara Oceans project is revealing new data on tiny ocean creatures and the critical roles they play in maintaining Earth as a livable planet. ‘Life in the ocean is a little less murky than before,’ says one scientist.
Call it the Microbe World Cruise, a 3-year project to take a census of the smallest denizens of the deep – from viruses and bacteria to tiny plankton.
The information gathered holds the potential to revolutionize humanity’s understanding of the interactions among these marine no-see-ums and the critical roles they play in maintaining Earth as a livable planet, researchers say.
How big are those roles? For starters, “taking care of every other breath you take is pretty big,” says Linda Amaral Zettler, a microbial ecologist at the Marine Biology Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., noting that plankton supply half of the atmosphere’s oxygen.
ICCI and CDA to join hands for tree plantation drive in Capital
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