Agence France-Presse: A century-long decline in tiny algae called phytoplankton could disrupt the global ocean food chain, including the human consumption of fish, according to a study released Wednesday. The microscopic organisms – which prop up the pyramid of marine animal life from shrimps to killer whales – have been disappearing globally at a rate of one percent per year, researchers reported. Since 1950, phytoplankon mass has dropped by about 40 percent, most likely due to the accelerating …