Single-cell plants called phytoplankton have a surprising way of remembering conditions in the past to help jump-start their ...

Duke researchers used more than two decades' worth of satellite data collected by a NASA instrument that scans the globe ...

A study published Thursday in the journal Science found that the ocean is changing color as it warms. By analyzing satellite ...

Even if you are far from a factory, the ocean can still feel its smoke. A new study led by scientists at the University of ...

Researchers find that tiny ocean plants react to nutrient and temperature shifts. In nutrient-poor zones, efficient ...

A study by the UPV/EHU's Department of Plant Biology and Ecology has evaluated the response of Urdaibai estuary phytoplankton to the changes brought about after the closing-down of the Gernika ...

In a unique collaboration between the University of Groningen and the Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, researchers ...

Over 88% of proteins encoded by these viral genomes are entirely novel, revealing a vast and unexplored genetic reservoir in ...

They are ancestors to terrestrial plants, which seem to have evolved from certain ocean phytoplankton hundreds of millions of years ago. They remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere—producing oxygen ...

NEWSLETTER SIGN UP The new technique begins with large blooms of microscopic plants called phytoplankton. These phytoplankton blooms remove roughly 150 billion tons of carbon dioxide from the ...

URI researchers say that in the last 50 years, levels of phytoplankton – tiny plants that are the foundation of the marine food chain – are down by 50% in Narragansett Bay. Through ...