Pteropods And Coccolithophores
circa 1800s - 2022 CE
“There’s a whole category of organism that have been around for hundreds of millions of years which are at risk of extinction namely, things that build calcium carbonate shells or skeletons.” “Normally, their shells are transparent. They look like little gems, little jewels. They’re just beautiful. But I could see that, along the edges they were becoming opaque, chalky.”
WHAT YOU CAN DO
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology
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