New international research led by Professors Willy Baeyens and Yue Gao of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), published in ...

They drift aimlessly at sea, soaking up sunlight from the sky and nutrients from the deep. Often invisible to the naked eye, these tiny invertebrates form the hidden backbone of ocean ecosystems.

Scientists have a new theory about why the ocean has so many types of plankton. By Saima Sidik. iStock / Getty. December 5, 2021. Share. Save. This article was originally published by Hakai Magazine.

Plankton comes in all sizes and shapes, from microscopic to several inches. Some larger jellyfish are considered planktonic. Plankton are the building blocks of life in the sea.

Creating new scientific models of plankton is "critical" to understanding the scale of global climate change, a new paper argues. The article, led by Plymouth Marine Laboratory's Professor Kevin Flynn ...

There have also been no widespread changes to the plankton levels in the Atlantic Ocean, said David Johns, head of the Continuous Plankton Record Survey, which was established in 1931 to measure ...

To learn more about phytoplankton while on the Shimada, scientists set up an incubator to grow the tiny organisms. First, scientists filtered 14-liters of sea water each morning, a process that ...

The ocean plays a major role in the global carbon cycle. The driving force comes from tiny plankton that produce organic carbon through photosynthesis, like plants on land.

YOU needed a microscope to see it, but there it was. After an absence of 800,000 years, Neodenticula seminae, a native of the Pacific Ocean, had showed up unexpectedly in the North Atlantic ...

Chefology: Plankton, a Microscopic Spice of the Sea A closer look at chefs' latest must-have for from-the-sea flavor. By Scott Jones and Benjamin Wolfe · 8/29/2013, 3:51 p.m.

Chefology: Plankton, a Microscopic Spice of the Sea A closer look at chefs' latest must-have for from-the-sea flavor. By Scott Jones and Benjamin Wolfe · 8/29/2013, 3:51 p.m.