“Marine biologists today note, almost everywhere, a decline in plankton biodiversity,” Mollo says in another interview. “When ...

Advances in technology—such as microscopic imaging and molecular techniques—have the potential to transform our understanding ...

What would happen if a 500-meter asteroid hit Earth? Scientists at the IBS Center for Climate Physics modeled the aftermath, ...

Some scientists hypothesize that the ammonites couldn’t survive the aftermath because of the sudden decline of their main food source: marine plankton. Ammonite shells are used today as index ...

Computer models reveal how human-driven climate change will dramatically overhaul critical nutrient cycles in the ocean. In ...

Comprising the base of the food web, plankton are extremely important to marine ecosystems. However, there is still much to be discovered about these organisms, and that's especially true for ...

Computer models reveal how human-driven climate change will dramatically overhaul critical nutrient cycles in the ocean. In ...

Zooplankton are one of the most diverse and abundant groups of organisms on Earth and they play an essential role in the marine food chain. Unable to photosynthesise, as phytoplankton do ...

In the sunlit surface layer of oceans Like land plants and seagrasses, microscopic marine algae known as phytoplankton also feed on CO2 and use photosynthesis to produce energy. Seagrasses and ...