Plankton are also adapted to their environments, and are very sensitive to changes in their conditions, such as differences ...

That happened to also be the year that we started developing this show." Satellite images show the phytoplankton bloom stretched from Los Angeles to Baja California, Mexico. But the phytoplanktons ...

The “red tide” is also known as a phytoplankton bloom, occurring when a species of the organism known as dinoflagellates reproduce rapidly in warmer and calmer waters. Typically occurring ...

Prakash and a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University and study co-author Adam Larson saw a bloom of P. noctiluca. Surprisingly, there were two very different sizes of plankton in their nets.

Circular ocean currents, called “eddies,” play an important role in supplying nutrients for marine life and can stimulate ...

Rising ocean heatwaves disrupt marine ecosystems, threatening phytoplankton blooms, food chains, and carbon storage.

New research published by University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa oceanographers showed that eddies on the leeward side of the ...