Scientists are gaining new insights into how plankton supports life on Earth — just as climate change is changing everything.

Tourists to Antarctica are fueling research on some of the tiniest, most influential organisms on Earth: phytoplankton. These ...

What is ocean productivity and why should we be concerned that it’s declining? It’s all about phytoplankton. CSIR researchers explained that ocean productivity essentially refers to how much ...

Air pollution has become an ever-pressing issue since the Industrial Revolution began in the mid-18th century. Progressive ...

“Phytoplankton is blooming in the … Bass Strait. The region is known for its turbulent waters and harbours numerous ...

Many biological molecules are chiral, meaning they exist in two forms that are mirror images of each other, like left and ...

In nature, however, the salinity varies widely among different species of diatoms—from 0 (diatoms can exist for some time even in distilled water) to more than 150‰, when salt deposition ...

The ocean is teeming with life, much of it invisible to the human eye. Beneath the waves, countless microscopic organisms play essential roles in maintaining Earth’s delicate balance. Among them, ...

Ocean productivity is driven by phytoplankton — microscopic marine algae that live in the sunlit surface water of the ocean. This not only forms the base of the marine food chain, supporting ...