Last week University of Tasmania Antarctic researchers reported krill will cope with ocean acidification caused by carbon emissions. This is good, given krill are a “key link” in the Antarctic food chain. But then on Friday other U Tas researchers advised that warming waters would change microbial activity, reducing carbon, “locked away in the depths of the Southern Ocean,” which is bad.
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