Across the tree of life, human activities are accelerating declines in biological species diversity, from deserts to oceans ...

Photosynthetic cells are quite diverse and include cells found in green plants, phytoplankton, and cyanobacteria. During the process of photosynthesis, cells use carbon dioxide and energy from the ...

In the sunlit surface layer of oceans Like land plants and seagrasses, microscopic marine algae known as phytoplankton also feed on CO2 and use photosynthesis to produce energy. Seagrasses and ...

A new climate modeling study presents a new scenario of how climate and life on our planet would change in response to a potential future strike of a medium-sized (~500 m) asteroid.

The results showed that drops in microbiome diversity result in effects that cut across many levels of biological ...

Many phytoplankton are microscopic, and they range from single-celled algae to bacteria to protists, which aren’t plants or animals. One thing they all have in common: They require sunlight.

Plankton also has an environmental super-power. Like plants on land, phytoplankton takes in carbon dioxide and produces oxygen. In fact, these tiny organisms provide half of the oxygen that we ...

A recent theory proposes that whales weren't just predators in the ocean environment: Nutrients that whales excreted may have provided a key fertilizer to these marine ecosystems. Oceanographers now ...

In a sea teeming with some of the largest creatures on the planet, a University of Miami scientist is studying how big of an ...

This is really important to create an environment that humans and other animals and plants can survive in. There are two types of plankton - zooplankton and phytoplankton. Seagrass beds provide ...

The startup’s ‘AI-optimized CDR’ approach is designed to re-create the optimal conditions for phytoplankton to play their ...

Phytoplankton—microscopic plant-like organisms—are the foundation of the marine food web, sustaining everything from tiny fish to multi-ton whales while also playing a critical role in ...