Human activity is suspected to have caused the change, according to the report published at Nature.com.
“I’ve been running simulations that have been telling me for years that these changes in ocean color are going to happen,” she said in a news release from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “To actually see it happening for real is not surprising, but frightening. And these changes are consistent with man-induced changes to our climate.”
The color shift was discovered as researchers poured over two decades’ worth of satellite data. They eventually concluded 56% of ocean’s surface was greener than it was before the turn of the century. The shift in color will impact “marine food webs,” the team concluded. However, the report did not specify a broader impact on humans.Climate change may be driving the shift, scientists suspect. However, the trend does not appear to be associated with rising sea surface temperatures, the study concluded. It could be dissolved organic material, changes in the type and quantity of phytoplankton…all these aspects can affect ocean color,” study coauthor Emmanuel Boss told EOS Science News.
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