THE FORGOTTEN BREATHERS OF THE WORLD

We normally consider plants the living things that give us the oxygen we breathe, but the true breathers live in great colonies of green microscopic photosynthetic microbes called plankton.
Plankton is the food source that makes the base for most underwater ecosystems and also produces around 80% of the world´s oxygen.
The richest places in biodiversity are the poorest in species population. Plankton can maintain a great feeding frenzy for months that can hold whales, sea birds, sharks, dolphins and us.
But in the recent years some data tell us that plankton production has decreased about 40%.
Plankton also helps turning carbon into limestone and preventing climate change.
These creature have been always helping us breathe, eat, grow, evolve.The rising temperatures,pollution and dead zones are killing the photosynthetic bacteria that composes plankton. If we loose them, we may loose everything we´ve ever known.