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Environment & Energy

Panich52

(5,829 posts) Mon Jan 26, 2015, 03:57 PM Jan 2015

Along with increasing sea levels, melting glaciers are putting something else into the world’s oceans -- a huge load of organic carbon that could change marine ecosystems, says a newly published study by a team of mostly Alaska scientists.

http://www.adn.com/article/20150124/glacial-melt-could-change-chemistry-and-food-web-worlds-oceans