PANJIM, April 5 -- ALEXANDRE MONIZ BARBOSA

Biological oceanographer, Dr Helga do Rosario Gomes, a Research Scientist at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia Climate School has said that the biodiversity of the Arabian Sea has changed completely.

Her research on the Arabian Sea has concluded that 'the biodiversity, the biology of the Arabian Sea, especially the base of the protein, which is the plant-like structures of this Arabian Sea had changed completely'.

Having done her PhD at NIO and a lot of her thesis work in the Arabian Sea, Rosario Gomes, hailing from Goa and currently with Columbia University in New York, returned later to conduct more research on the Arabian sea.

"When we started looking at the data, we saw that ther...