sea sponge Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Fri, 25 May 2012 17:32:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Sea Sponges Could Be Used to Detect Climate Change and Water Pollution https://www.greenoptimistic.com/sea-sponges-climate-change-pollution-20120525/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/sea-sponges-climate-change-pollution-20120525/#comments Fri, 25 May 2012 17:32:13 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=24732 Kuo Yang and Susanne Zeile, guided by Prof. Wei Zhang discovered that sea sponges can tell whether they’ve suffered changes because of climate change or other pollutants in the water they live in. They performed tests on sea sponges by artificially increasing water temperatures, adding pollutants or modifying the acidity levels. The results have been […]

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