An expansive, glowing mass of marine life has been observed from space off the southern coast of Australia. NASA satellites ...

(Additionally, organisms that feed on phytoplankton also ingest large quantities of the microplastics.) Where plankton suffers, so does the entire ocean food chain. When environmenmental ...

What they're finding, according to The New York Times, is that the changing environment is threatening these tiny organisms, and therefore threatening the entire food chain. Phytoplankton are ...

Through one of the primary carbon storage mechanisms, the biological carbon pump, phytoplankton (microscopic marine plants at the bottom of the oceanic food chain) take up CO 2 in the surface ocean ...

When foreign hazardous substances enter the marine environment, they are assimilated into the first link in the food chain, phytoplankton. The phytoplankton is consumed by zooplankton, which in ...

They stimulate production of microscopic marine algae, or phytoplankton, which form the base of many marine food chains. Phytoplankton, via photosynthesis, convert chlorophyll, sunlight, and a variety ...

The Arctic is changing – and not just in the ways you might think. Once covered in thick, bright sea ice, the region is now ...

“We find plastics there,” said Aron Stubbins, a professor of marine and environmental sciences at Northeastern University.