Scientists' yearlong study on Antarctic microbial communities reveals how climate change alters bacterial and phytoplankton ...

The robot can do something that her water sampler can't: It can find its way to the tightest concentration of phytoplankton in the water column. Their findings are published in the journal PLOS ONE.

A new part of an ocean plant cell has been discovered that might revolutionize farming one day. The structure can take ...

The dinoflagellates — single-celled phytoplankton that produce oxygen in water — emit a sparkling cold light when agitated as a protection mechanism. This unpredictable category of glowing ...

Dead octopuses have been found along South Australian beaches as environment authorities say a microalgae bloom could be to ...

While high temperatures pose challenges for farmed fish, the rising heat index is benefiting another marine product—the oysters (talaba), which grow ...

Coordinated measures highlight that bacteria and other single-celled microorganisms in the seas around Antarctica are ...

Satellite images taken at the beginning of March show the iceberg parked on a shallow underwater shelf off the coast of South ...

Bigelow Laboratory scientists have advanced an exciting method for linking the activity of individual microbes to their ...

Shavonna Bent of Braintree knew from childhood visits to Woods Hole Science Aquarium in Falmouth, MA that she wanted to find a way to get on board its research ship. With the help of a VSAC counselor ...

Red tides are one of nature’s most captivating yet perplexing phenomena. These events, characterized by the reddish ...

The so-called A23a iceberg, the world's largest, has run aground in South Georgia after almost 40 years at sea, threatening important penguin colonies.