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Phytoplankton Productivity Down in Gulf of Maine

New research shows that phytoplankton in the region are about 65 percent less productive than they were two decades ago.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Lauren Dauphin, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE and GIBS/Worldview. Story by Roberto Molar-Candanosa, NASA’s Earth Science News Team.

Published June 7, 2022
Data acquired June 5, 2022

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