Half of world's oxygen comes from phytoplankton

When we think about Earth
�s sources of oxygen, we usually think of vast forests such as the Amazon, but about half of the oxygen we breathe comes from elsewhere; it�s produced by phytoplankton. Phytoplankton also serve as the base of the oceanic food chain. This image shows nine years of ocean chlorophyll from phytoplankton.

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