It's spring, the sun is shining and something is about to happen with the plankton in the cold waters of the Arctic Ocean.

ROCKVILLE, MD – Phytoplankton, tiny plant-like organisms in the ocean, are incredibly important for life on Earth. They're a ...

Benjamin Van Mooy and his team found a relationship between plankton, omega-3 fatty acids and warming ocean waters.

Like land plants, phytoplankton form the base of the marine food web. While cows graze grass on land, zooplankton, tiny marine animals, eat phytoplankton. Zooplankton include one of Earth's most ...

Phytoplankton, tiny plant-like organisms in the ocean, are incredibly important for life on Earth. They're a major food ...

Computer models reveal how human-driven climate change will dramatically overhaul critical nutrient cycles in the ...

The UNC system project allows researchers to study habitat changes from the mouth of the Cape Fear River to the Gulf Stream’s ...

Scientists created a tool to study individual phytoplankton, helping predict climate effects and ocean health changes.

Some plankton combine calcium and dissolved carbonates ... Nutrient circulation Phytoplankton, like land plants, require nutrients such as nitrate or calcium. They also need iron, which is scarce ...

A CSIR study analysing 26 years of satellite data reveals how ocean warming is significantly reducing ocean productivity ...

Long bright days and rising temperatures have awakened the phytoplankton. The spring bloom has begun, and populations of these tiny plankton are growing explosively beneath the surface.