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

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

Discover the world's best beaches to see the magical glow of bioluminescence. From Mexico to Jamaica, find out where and when ...

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 ...

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.

Clouds play an important role in regulating the climate. Bright ones at low altitudes generally reflect solar energy away, ...

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.

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 ...

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

Bioluminescence—light that living organisms produce—lights up the ocean. Learn about eight places where the waters glow with this light.

Long bright days and rising temperatures have awakened the phytoplankton. The spring bloom has begun, and populations of these tiny plankton are growing explosively beneath the surface.