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.

“Arctic Station has been ... transfers water samples filled with phytoplankton and zooplankton harvested from his field site, a section of open ocean off the coast of Disko Island.

The basis of the marine food web in the Arctic, the phytoplankton ... During a heat wave, not only the air but also the ocean grows warmer—the temperature is substantially higher than the ...

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

Clean and safe lake water is an important part of the Finnish identity. In recent decades, interest in the condition of lake ...

Phytoplankton are changing the “physical property ... A positive feedback process is already known to occur in the Arctic, as the darker-hued ocean water absorbs more sun than the lighter-colored ice.

In the vibrant yet fragile waters of the Gulf of Oman, spectacular phytoplankton blooms – visible even from space – unfold in ...

By Park Hye Ri The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries on March 30 announced in a world first confirmation of the expansion of Atlantification of the Arctic Ocean deep into the latter's western section ...

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 ...

For Arrigo and his team, it was also a rare opportunity to study the Arctic marine ecosystem firsthand ... had hit an unexpectedly large phytoplankton hotspot in the Chukchi Sea, just off the Bering ...

One of the ocean currents in the Arctic Ocean is at risk of disappearing this century because of climate change, according to ...

“It’s like seeing all the flowers of the ocean.” These flowers are phytoplankton, tiny aquatic algae and bacteria that photosynthesize to live directly off energy from the sun. They are ...