Ocean Creatures Linked to Cloud Cover Increases

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This true-color image from NASA’s Visible Earth project shows a phytoplankton bloom off South Georgia Island in January 2004. (NASA photo)

Atmospheric scientists have reported a new and potentially important mechanism by which chemical emissions from ocean phytoplankton may influence the formation of clouds that reflect sunlight away from our planet.

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Bremerhaven, August 19th 2008. German research vessel Polarstern, operated by the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association, transits the Northwest Passage for the ...

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