Researchers find one type of algae able to adapt to warming oceans

Monday, September 15, 2014 - 09:31 in Earth & Climate

(Phys.org) —A team of German biology researchers has found that at least one type of algae appears able to adapt to rising ocean temperatures and the accompanying increased acidification. In their paper published in the journal Nature Climate Change, the team describes how they subjected algae specimens to warmer and/or more acidic water over a year's time and the changes in the algae that came about as a result.

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