Climate Change Is Causing Oceans To Change Color

CNN reports:

The color of the ocean has changed significantly over the last 20 years and human-caused climate change is likely responsible, according to a new study. More than 56% of the world’s oceans have changed color to an extent that cannot be explained by natural variability, said a team of researchers, led by scientists from the National Oceanography Center in the UK and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US, in a statement.

Tropical oceans close to the equator in particular have become greener in the past two decades, reflecting changes in their ecosystems, according to the study published Wednesday in the journal Nature. The researchers monitored changes in ocean color from space by tracking how much green or blue light is reflected from the surface of the sea. They used data from the Aqua satellite which is able to pick out differences that are not visible to the human eye.

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