Dalhousie University researchers analyzed data collected over more than half a century to assess how two types of phytoplankton are responding to climate change.

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.

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

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.

A study published Thursday in the journal Science found that the ocean is changing color as it warms. By analyzing satellite ...