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But what would happen if all marine life—from the tiniest plankton to the largest whales—disappeared? A recent study delves into this extreme scenario to uncover the crucial role that ocean biology ...

Climate change threatens plankton in a few different ways. Warming stifles ocean circulation that bring nutrients from the deep to the surface. The accumulation of carbon dioxide dissolved in ...

Matt Simon’s book, A Poison Like No Other ... is that a planet-wide population of smaller, shorter-lived ocean algae and zooplankton may not be able to take up as much carbon as their ancestors ...

“Plankton in the Atlantic Ocean is 90% gone,” reads a July 19 Facebook post shared more than 5,800 times. “In what could be the most disturbing news in ocean conservation, if not human ...

(The old comic book ads said ... Which, when it comes to the open ocean and its plankton, requires a deep breath. It’s helpful to know a bit more about phytoplankton, the forests of the ...

In an innovative effort to combat climate change, a Dartmouth-led study has proposed a method that employs trillions of microscopic zooplankton to accelerate the ocean’s natural carbon removal ...

The study cited by the Instagram post has not been peer-reviewed Marine biologists and oceanographers have not observed any dramatic reduction in the plankton population in the Atlantic Ocean or ...

Converging currents at the surface of the ocean create some of the best places to find life. It's there that tiny plankton hang out—and where plankton float, hungry fish follow. It's also there ...

This process is one of the key ways the ocean locks away carbon from the atmosphere. Because plankton use carbon dioxide to grow at the surface, it's stored in their bodies. After they die ...

AMHEST, Mass. – A collaborative research team lead by the University of Massachusetts Amherst has recently revealed that rotifers, a kind of microscopic zooplankton common in both fresh and ...

Microfibres that shed from washing clothes can harm or even kill zooplankton, reducing a food source for many types of fish, including salmon, according to a new study by Ocean Wise and the ...