Winter brought a colder and icier season to the Great Lakes, especially Lake Erie, which saw a near-complete ice cover in ...

We studied the water under the microscope and extracted DNA for genetic analysis. Single-celled, microbial algae occur naturally in seawater all over the world. They are also called phytoplankton ...

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

Similar seawater quality problems to those that have been reported near Victor Harbor are threatening the livelihood of a ...

Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet—where creatures glow and life survives under crushing ...

Ella McSweeney on a thoughtful man who lived a determined and visionary life as a conservationist and educator ...

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 ...

some tides to be able to start to break up and disperse the phytoplankton." Satellite imagery from NASA has shown an increased amount of chlorophyll in the water around the southern Fleurieu ...

Volunteers spent hours scrubbing oysters which next month will be transferred to a marina as part of a project to improve water quality. The 4,000 oysters, which were cleaned in Southsea, will be ...

PACE/NASA Some phytoplankton blooms grow so big, so quickly, that when they eventually decay, they deplete oxygen in the surrounding water, creating “dead zones” where nothing else can live.

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