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

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

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

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 ...

Plankton or Plankton are organisms found in fresh and marine waters, they can also be called phytoplankton (plants), as they can be apply to plants and animals, they do not have any kind of movement ...

Late summer and early fall brought a burst of harmful algal blooms (HABs) for days on end throughout Owasco Lake and our ...

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

October 2024 will be remembered by the locals around Pyramid Lake, Nevada, for a rather unusual display of nature's colors ...

Traditionally, research has focused on either climate change or chemical pollution in isolation, overlooking their combined ...