Phytoplankton—microscopic plant-like organisms—are the foundation of the marine food web, sustaining everything from tiny ...

A collaborative project among NASA, the University of Miami, San José State University, Curtin University and the Australian ...

Yet not all of those organisms have limbs to propel themselves ... Now, a team of researchers has shown that one species of phytoplankton has an ingenious solution: swelling to six times its ...

Mercury contamination poses serious risks to the ecosystem. Phytoplankton and zooplankton, the microscopic organisms ...

Like plants on land, phytoplankton takes in carbon dioxide and produces oxygen. In fact, these tiny organisms provide half of the oxygen that we breathe. What have you learnt about plankton?

The spectacle, often caused by a bloom of bioluminescent phytoplankton, such as dinoflagellates, has many asking why organisms would risk burning energy trying to produce such captivating light in ...

Phytoplankton, a collection of photosynthesizing microscopic organisms, are highly sensitive to variations in nutrient availability. So they are a useful indicator when assessing excess inorganic ...

While we all love to take a stroll around water bodies such as rivers, lakes, ponds, streams and enjoy watching birds ...

Bangaram beach in Lakshadweep glows in the dark as the water emits a glow at night due to the presence of phytoplankton, ...

Phytoplankton are, on average ... I think one of the threads that's really fun is that we have a long list of organisms to ...

Cusick, now a PhD candidate at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, co-founded the current program in 2016 ...

Phytoplankton—microscopic plant-like organisms—are the foundation of the marine food web, sustaining everything from tiny fish to multi-ton whales while also playing a critical role in ...