New international research led by Professors Willy Baeyens and Yue Gao of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), published in ...

It's spring, the sun is shining and something is about to happen with the plankton in the cold waters of the Arctic Ocean. Long bright days and rising temperatures have awakened the phytoplankton.

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Creating new scientific models of plankton is "critical" to understanding the scale of global climate change, a new paper ...

Plankton are the backbone of the ocean — and may struggle with what’s coming. A pair of papers in the journal Nature shows how plankton are struggling to survive in warming seas.

Over the past two decades, more than one-fifth of the world's oceans, an area exceeding 75 million square kilometers, have ...

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As such, the plankton are not only fundaments of the ocean’s ecology but are critical in the cycling of carbon through Earth’s systems that have, until now, helped to stabilise the climate.

Plankton comes in all sizes and shapes, from microscopic to several inches. Some larger jellyfish are considered planktonic. Plankton are the building blocks of life in the sea.

A study published Thursday in the journal Science found that the ocean is changing color as it warms. By analyzing satellite data from 2003 to 2022, researchers from Duke University and the Georgia ...

Kongsfjorden, Svalbard, May 2022: It's spring, the sun is shining and something is about to happen with the plankton in the cold waters of the Arctic Ocean. Long bright days and rising ...