The changes would come “in the dynamics of phytoplankton bloom formation and termination, in the absorption and sequestration of carbon dioxide by the ocean, and in the composition of exported ...

Beatrix Beisner receives funding from NSERC and the FRQNT. She is Co-Director of the Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire en limnologie (GRIL), a research network of 12 Québec universities.

Each year, vast blooms of phytoplankton spread across the Southern Ocean, drawing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and ...

Behind closed doors at the Shedd Aquarium, green, orange and red water bubbles and gurgles in carefully organized jars and vats up to 5 feet high. In this water, microscopic organisms live, thrive and ...

With carbon emissions continuing to grow exponentially, the key to unlocking a greener world could lie in the feeding (and pooping) habits of these miniscule marine organisms. “Marine snow,” a ...

On July 17, 2022, the Scottish newspaper The Sunday Post published an article titled “Our empty oceans: Scots team’s research finds Atlantic plankton all but wiped out in catastrophic loss of life.” ...

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Companies around the world are racing to patent the genetic building blocks of plankton – microscopic ocean life that ...