Mesoscale ocean eddies transport nutrients and energy-rich lipids, helping sustain marine ecosystems far from coasts.

An curved arrow pointing right. When plastics enter the ocean they breakdown into small pieces, making them dangerous for even microscopic forms of marine life. That's why researchers at the ...

Their research, published in Environmental Sciences Europe on Tuesday, shows these microplastics promote crystallisation of ...

After a decade studying microscopic marine life, biologist Nina Lundholm decided in 2011 that it was time to bring back the dead. She had first become fascinated with phytoplankton when she was a PhD ...

Winter brought a colder and icier season to the Great Lakes, especially Lake Erie, which saw a near-complete ice cover in ...

A microalgal bloom created by unusual weather conditions was suspected to have sickened humans and marine life as well as creating ... A bloom of microalgae – microscopic, single-celled ...

Carbon, a building block of life, is constantly moving through different environmental ... Through one of the primary carbon storage mechanisms, the biological carbon pump, phytoplankton (microscopic ...

BEAUFORT, N.C. – Microscopic plastic particles have been found in the fats and lungs of two-thirds of the marine mammals in a graduate student’s study of ocean microplastics. The presence of polymer ...