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>> How little life must have changed in the past 3000 years in the deep ocean?

Plastics. There are plastics down there, mostly fishing nets, that are making huge changes. And whales. There are far fewer whales alive today, and fewer dead whales sinking to the depths, which radically changes the amount of nutrients arriving on the bottom.




re: Whales: found this an incredibly illuminating read recently: The Enormous Hole That Whaling Left Behind from The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/11/whaling-...




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