Fish stocks in the North Atlantic could halve due to a "hidden vulnerability" involving the oceans' plankton, a study has found, The new research published in Nature Communications found that when ...

Each year, vast blooms of phytoplankton spread across the Southern Ocean, drawing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and ...

Long before whales dominated the oceans, Earth’s seas were home to a fish so massive it continues to challenge our understanding of prehistoric life. Leedsichthys problematicus, an enormous ...

BANGKOK, June 23 (Reuters) - Climate change might have stimulated a plankton bloom that caused thousands of dead fish to wash up along a 3- to 4-kilometre stretch of beach in Thailand's southern ...

They’re small, but they’re mighty. From producing oxygen we breathe to soaking up carbon we emit to feeding fish we eat, tiny phytoplankton are a crucial part of ocean ecosystems and essential to life ...

EXPERTS BEFORE THE FIRST SAMPLES ARE TAKEN TOMORROW. BEHIND ME IS THE LAKE GUARDIAN, THE EPA’S RESEARCH VESSEL THAT WILL BE EXPLORING THE GREAT LAKES FOR A MONTH, FINDING WHAT THE WATER QUALITY IS ...

Behind closed doors at the Shedd Aquarium, green, orange and red water bubbles and gurgles in carefully organized jars and vats up to 5 feet high. In this water, microscopic organisms live, thrive and ...