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

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 ...

Phytoplankton are microscopic plants floating around in marine and aquatic ecosystems that produce 50-80% of the world’s oxygen. Besides providing food for countless other organisms, they are so ...

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

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 ...

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

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

Phytoplankton in the ocean use this carbon dioxide and sunlight to run photosynthesis just like land-based plants. Oxygen is produced by this process—phytoplankton are actually responsible for ...

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 ...