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credit: Andrew Cohen, University of Arizona
at Tucson / National Science Foundation

Researchers deploy a core-sampling instrument at Lake Tanganyika. They discovered that water in the lake is not circulating sufficiently to move nutrients to the surface where algae grow, thus compromising the ecosystem's entire food chain.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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