The seawater in 24 plastic Nalgene bottles sloshed gently in the wet lab on the Bell M. Shimada, one of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s ocean research vessels. Each bottle ...

Antarctica is often seen as frozen, silent, and unchanging, with sharp winds, cold waters, and endless ice. But even this ...

Historically, the oceans have done much of the planet's heavy lifting when it comes to sequestering carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Microscopic organisms known collectively as phytoplankton, which ...

Weathered rocks sitting above the ice hold iron concentrations up to ten times higher than earlier reports from elsewhere in ...

Phenology of phytoplankton was investigated at a coastal station in the western Baltic Sea from 1988 to 2017 by means of microscopically determined biomass and chlorophyll a (chl a) data. The ...

New research using real-world data casts doubt on the energy efficiency of diesel alternatives that come from phytoplankton. Biofuels made from algae have had their time in the sun, with years of ...

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 57, No. 2 (2012), pp. 541-553 (13 pages) We measured specific growth rates of Stephanodiscus minutulus, Nitzschia acicularis (diatoms), and Limnothrix redekei ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — Even if you are far from a factory, the ocean can still feel its smoke. A new study led by scientists at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa shows that iron from burning coal and ...

A growing body of scientific evidence reveals that primary producers—including plants and phytoplankton—possess a previously ...

A new study suggests that iron fertilization may not have a significant impact on phytoplankton growth, at least on a global scale. Historically, the oceans have done much of the planet's heavy ...