UD doctoral student Tianyu Zhou is pictured on the right using a shovel to remove snow that covers the sea ice during a ...

She wonders, too, whether Arctic phytoplankton’s ability to ride ... If she’s right, the zone of productive ocean may be deeper than anyone thought. “If polar phytoplankton were able to ...

A new study out of the University of Vermont quantifies just how much migrating female whales do to sustain ocean ecosystems.

It's spring, the sun is shining and something is about to happen with the plankton in the cold waters of the Arctic Ocean. Long bright days and rising temperatures have awakened the phytoplankton.

A new part of an ocean plant cell has been discovered that might revolutionize farming one day. The structure can take ...

In a nutshell Migrating baleen whales transport thousands of tons of nutrients from cold, nutrient-rich feeding grounds to warm, nutrient-poor breeding areas through their urine, placentas, skin, and ...

So Tyler Coale, a phytoplankton biologist at ... DANIEL: And yet the DNA was everywhere - in the open ocean, along the coast, in the tropics, the Arctic. It also appeared to have a special and ...