Plankton are an important food source for many large and small ocean creatures. They also play a vital role in absorbing carbon dioxide and producing oxygen in the ocean. The two most prominent ...

Sign up for the Morning Brief email newsletter to get weekday updates from The Weather Channel and our meteorologists. Plankton are positively microscopic, but their ...

In the vibrant yet fragile waters of the Gulf of Oman, spectacular phytoplankton blooms – visible even from space – unfold in ...

While satellites help some oceanographers zoom out to get the biggest possible picture, other researchers are zooming in, collecting plankton from the ocean and studying them under microscopes.

Plankton is the name given to a collection of tiny sea life that lives in the ocean. These minute organisms may be small, but they have a big role to play in maintaining the health of our oceans.

Just like a plant! And what's that? It's lots and lots of plankton! Plankton is made up of tiny plants and animals. These plants are at the beginning of most of the ocean's food chains.

Learning how plankton consume phosphorus also helps predict how ocean life will respond to prolonged fertilizer use, increased shipping, and climate change. "As the climate continues changing from ...

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