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Climate change, causing oceans to become more green
Posted on 16 July, 2023 by benyamin chahkandi
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More than half of the world's oceans have become greener over the past 20 years, likely due to global warming. This was determined by analyzing 20 years of data on ocean color from NASA's Aqua satellite.
The greening indicates increased phytoplankton and algae in the surface waters. Phytoplankton contain chlorophyll which makes the ocean appear greener.
The tropical and subtropical waters between 40°S and 40°N latitude changed the most in color. These areas...
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15 March, 2024Today In History
Here are some interesting facts ih history happened on 16 October.
- Portland Maine burned by British.
- Washington takes Yorktown
- Marie Antoinette beheaded in France.
- Dentist William T. Morton demonstrated the effectiveness of ether
- British seize Tigre Island in Gulf of Fonseca from Honduras.
- John Brown leads group of 20 in a raid on Harper's Ferry Va.
- Confederacy starts selling postage stamps
- Hotel in Boston becomes the 1st to have indoor plumbing
- Margaret Sanger opens 1st birth control clinic (Bkln)
- Jim Conzelman takes over as coach of Rock Island Independents from Frank Coughlin -- only mid-game coaching change in NFL history.
- Disney Co founded
- Gordo (by Gus Arriola) 1st appeared in newspapers
- Chicago Mayor Ed Kelly opens the city's new subway system.
- 10 Nazi leaders hanged as war criminals after Nuremberg trials.
- Woolworth's at Powell & Market (S.F.) opens.
- Queen Elizabeth & Prince Philip arrive in Virginia
- Cuban missile crisis began as JFK becomes aware of missiles in Cuba
- Yanks beat Giants 4 games to 3 in the world series
- Brezhnev & Kosygin replace Krushchev as head of Russia
- China becomes world's 5th nuclear power
- Soyuz 6 returns to Earth
- Anwar Sadat elected president of Egypt succeeding Gamal Abdel Nasser
- Amphitheater in McLaren Park is dedicated in S.F.
- Kissinger & Le Duc Tho jointly awarded Nobel peace prize
- Soyuz 23 returns to Earth
- Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla elected supreme pontiff-John Paul II.
- Israel's General Moshe Dayan dies at 66
- Mt Palomar Observatory 1st to detect Halley's comet on 13th return
- Devils 1st road victory 6-5 over Penguins
- Shultz warns US will withdraw from UN if they vote to exclude Israel
- Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu named Nobel Peace Prize winner
- Intel introduces 32-bit 80386 microcomputer chip.
- Armand Hammer arrives back in US with Jewish refusenik David Goldfarb
- 175-kph winds cause blackout in London much of southern England.
- 18-month-old Jessica McClure is rescued 58 hours after she fell 22 feet into a well shaft in Midland TX.