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Maine study finds potentially disastrous threat to single-celled plants that support all life

June 18, 2012
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In 2007, the reproduction rate of phytoplankton in the Gulf of Maine decreased suddenly by a factor of five — what used to take a day now takes five — and according to a recently released study by the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in Boothbay, it hasn’t bounced back. Click for more Print

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