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Decline in oceans' phytoplankton alarms scientists / Experts pondering whether reduction of marine plant life is linked to warming of the seas: "Plant life covering the surface of the world's oceans, a vital resource that helps absorb the worst of the 'greenhouse gases' involved in global warming, is disappearing at a dangerous rate, scientists have discovered.
Satellites and seagoing ships have confirmed the diminishing productivity of the microscopic plants, which oceanographers say is most striking in the waters of the North Pacific -- ranging as far up as the high Arctic. "