Showing posts with label chlorophyll. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chlorophyll. Show all posts

Sunday, January 18, 2009

Ocean: An Illustrated Atlas



The New York Times discusses a new National Geographic publication, Ocean: An Illustrated Atlas. It's geared to general readers, and has got lots of maps, including the one above - a map of chlorophyll amounts in the world's oceans. (It's interesting how much ocean life tends to concentrate near the poles and the mouths of major rivers.)

Plus it's got lots of NatGeo-grade photography of guys like these:



Sea squirts. Cute, no?