A hidden ecosystem of giant sea spiders, octopuses, and other stunning sea creatures shows how life can flourish even when ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Rust can be incredibly annoying if it appears on your new bicycle or car, but if you are a free-floating baby marine animal ...

In a laboratory at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, in Palisades, New York, Debra Lee Magadini positions a slide under a microscope ... their way into marine and ...

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 ...

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

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 ...