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 ...

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.

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

Phytoplankton blooms are one of the most important factors contributing to the efficiency of the carbon pump in the North Atlantic Ocean. To better understand this phenomenon, the ERC remOcean[1 ...

Phytoplankton, the tiny little ocean creatures that generate a massive amount of the world's oxygen, form the base of the ocean food chain, and otherwise deserve to be nominated Hero of the World ...

But on Sept. 23, the weather was good enough in the North Atlantic for the infrared imaging system on the Suomi NPP satellite to take a photo of a bloom. "The image does a beautiful job of showing the ...

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