Angelicque White : What ocean microbes reveal about the changing climate

Angelicque White·TED@NAS
What ocean microbes reveal about the changing climate
Summary
What ocean microbes reveal is that ecosystems have not collected yet. 1) Oceans are very much alive.

The speaker is a biological oceanographer who studies microbial lives in the Pacific Ocean. Simply, the forests of the sea are microbial and it’s beautifully green. Oceans cover 70 percent of our planet, so ocean change is planetary change, and it all starts with microbes.

However, contamination is starting, harmful algal blooms 2) and it turns out that it links to aspects of climate. 3)

However, if we give them a chance, microbes can absolutely bounce back. They are really resilient ecosystems. She said that the work of the generation of scientists is pointing us to take better care of our oceans and to nurture the microbes that sustain us.

Words in this story
re·ju·ve·nate /verb/ give new energy or vigor to; revitalize
mi·crobe /noun/ a microorganism, especially a bacterium causing disease or fermentation
bi·o·log·i·cal /adj/ relating to biology or living organisms.