Microscopic plankton are among the most important organisms on Earth. Phytoplankton produce around half of the oxygen we ...

For nearly 50 years, scientists have suspected that microscopic marine plankton play a role in cloud formation over the ...

New Stanford-led research unveils a hidden factor that could change our understanding of how oceans mitigate climate change. The study, published Oct. 11 in Science, reveals never-before seen mucus ...

The amount of carbon stored by microscopic plankton will increase in the coming century, predict researchers. The amount of carbon stored by microscopic plankton will increase in the coming century, ...

Climate change is not only warming our lakes and rivers, it is also changing what invasive species eat. A new experimental ...

The Mediterranean Sea is rapidly changing under ongoing climate change. In the eastern basin, tropicalization is already well documented and driven by a combination of strong warming and the influx of ...

is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She is also the host of Hell or High Water: When Disaster Hits Home, a podcast from Vox Media ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This week at the Oceanarium, I was stopped short while explaining that the eggs from a crab hatch into larval stages and become ...

Today, Holz is an electron microscopy research fellow at Boston University in neuroscientist Helen Barbas’s group. While she spends her weekdays capturing images for scientific research, her weekends ...

Researchers have discovered dozens of new types of microscopic phytoplankton in Bermuda’s waters as part of a new study. According to the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences Currents newsletter, the ...

EASTON — The microscopic world of plankton is on tap at Chesapeake Forum April 19 when James Pierson, Ph.D., introduces participants to the tiny creatures that make up a critical part of the ...