Blooms of coccolithophores can also be beneficial for the local environment. For example, their calcium carbonate scales can ...

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Nova Scotia Phytoplankton, key to ocean life, falling 2% per year in North Atlantic Phytoplankton are the base of the ocean food web and help remove carbon dioxide from air ...

New research challenges the long-held belief that the Arctic Ocean was covered by a massive ice shelf during ice ages.

Phytoplankton are single-celled organisms that live a divided life, in the sense that they require sunlight from above and nutrients from below.

Six decades of data on North Atlantic phytoplankton reveal that their biomass has decreased up to 2% annually across most of the Atlantic Ocean. Credit: Ekaterina Boltaga, Unsplash, CC0 ...

A startup called Gigablue claims to have reached a milestone by selling 200,000 carbon credits for its ocean-based carbon ...

Two main types of phytoplankton have been decreasing in biomass in the North Atlantic by two per cent each year for the past 60 years, a new study has found.Dalhousie University researchers analyzed ...

Areas near the poles are turning greener, while spots closer to the equator are getting bluer, researchers say.

Plankton are vital to planetary and climate stability and are therefore important contributors to human well-being.