Dalhousie University researchers analyzed data collected over more than half a century to assess how two types of ...

Scientists were shocked by the high degree of warming in the North Atlantic Ocean this summer, and are concerned about effects on phytoplankton and fish. Intensifying and lengthening marine ...

Phytoplankton populations in the North Atlantic Ocean have declined by about 2% per year over the past 60 years, with regional exceptions. Diatoms have increased in proportion relative to ...

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 ...

Areas near the poles are turning greener, while spots closer to the equator are getting bluer, researchers say.

If 90% of the Atlantic Ocean’s Plankton Were Gone, We Would Know About It. ... But some carbon moves to different levels of the ocean when the phytoplankton is consumed.

Scientists behind a NASA-funded study found that phytoplankton are about 65% less productive in the Gulf of Maine, part of the Atlantic Ocean bounded by New England and Canada, than they were two ...

Strong winds carry millions of metric tons of Saharan dust over the Atlantic Ocean each year. This image, taken July 26, 2022, by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on board ...

This 2014 satellite photo shows a gigantic, multicolor phytoplankton bloom swirling off the coast of Argentina. More recent ...

The scientists found that phytoplankton are about 65% less productive in the Gulf of Maine, part of the Atlantic Ocean bounded by New England and Canada, than they were two decades ago.

Effectively, the Atlantic Ocean is now pretty much dead.” Shortly after the article was published, the claim that “plankton in the Atlantic Ocean is 90% gone” began circulating widely online.