Cooling by algae

Aug 26, 2015

Microscopically small algae similar to these have probably contributed to major changes in the history of Earth.
Photo: NOAA MESA project

Together with colleagues from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Dr. Christian Hallmann from MARUM and Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry studied how an increase of certain algae may have contributed to dramatic climate cooling millions of years ago. Their results have been published in the magazine Nature Geoscience.

Press report from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research