The Crucial Role of Plankton in Our Ecosystem: Insights from the Healthy Seas Podcast

🌊 Before forests, before animals, before humans... there was plankton.

Often invisible, rarely celebrated, plankton is the foundation of life on Earth. In this episode of the Healthy Seas Podcast, ocean advocate and author Vincent Doumeizel explains why these microscopic drifters may be the most important organisms on the planet.

For 3.5 billion years, plankton has shaped our world, producing oxygen, regulating the climate, powering the carbon cycle, and supporting the entire marine food web.

But this invisible system is under pressure. Rising temperatures, acidification, and pollution are already changing plankton communities, with consequences that could ripple across ecosystems and accelerate climate change.

🎧 Listen to learn with Vincent Doumeizel:
• Why plankton is the true foundation of life on Earth
• How microscopic organisms regulate climate and biodiversity
• What happens when plankton communities shift
• Why understanding plankton could unlock future solutions

🎙️ Hosted by Crystal DiMiceli , Becoming Forces for Nature

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