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TinyBlueGreen

As GreenPolicy360 "Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists", we look at "tiny little ones", microscopic ocean life


"A single kind of blue-green algae in the ocean produces the oxygen in one of every five breaths we take"

~ from "The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean’s Are One" by Sylvia Earle / National Geographic


"The Tiny Little Ones - Plankton"

"Ecosystems of the Sea"


It is estimated that marine plants produce between 70 and 80 percent of the oxygen in the atmosphere

Nearly all marine plants are single-celled photosynthetic Eukaryotes -- phytoplankton algae and marine plants
Marine plants -- Phytoplankton, Phytoplankton 'blooms', 'forests of the seas' Kelp, Seagrasses... Blue-Green Life taking in carbon and producing Life-Enabling Oxygen


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Tree of Life


Looking at 'blue-green eco-regions, seagrass plains, floating ocean forests', connections between oceans and atmosphere-oxygen-climate, food-chains, fisheries, science and sustainability policies


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