Projections of our future under climate change paint a picture of extreme weather and acidified oceans, a world many of today ...

Among the myriad creatures that populate our ocean, some stand out as having an outsized impact on the marine environment—shaping and maintaining habitats that themselves sustain countless other forms ...

Strategy for discovering protist – bacterial interactions in the ocean. The strategy relied on working at-sea where uncultivated cells could be interrogated without any form of fixation. The cartoon ...

In new research published this week, a team led by Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) scientists reveals that symbiotic bacteria often accompany single-celled protists in the ocean’s upper layer. Some ...

Nanotube bridge networks grow between the most abundant photosynthetic bacteria in the oceans, suggesting that the world is ...

The blue whale is the largest animal on the planet. It consumes enormous quantities of tiny, shrimp-like animals known as ...

Across the tree of life, human activities are accelerating declines in biological species diversity, from deserts to oceans to forests. But what about the microscopic world? Scientists in UC San Diego ...

Methanotrophic Bacteria Methanotrophs might be small, but they pack a powerful punch when it comes to turning methane, a dangerous greenhouse gas, into harmless compounds. Methane has an alarming ...

"There can be cascading effects up the food web," said Gerace, who explained how plankton -- microorganisms that form the bases of many marine food webs -- rely on phosphorus as a food source.