Creating new scientific models of plankton is "critical" to understanding the scale of global climate change, a new paper argues. The article, led by Plymouth Marine Laboratory's Professor Kevin Flynn ...

Some episodes give Plankton the storylines he deserves, allowing him to show more of his personality. This is even more ...

New international research led by Professors Willy Baeyens and Yue Gao of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), published in ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Not much attention is paid to plankton because these creatures are usually hidden from sight. They are mostly microscopic in size and live in aquatic environments, but human ...

Plankton are a collection of tiny organisms that live at and beneath the surface of lakes, rivers, ponds, and oceans across the planet. They’re named for the Greek word planktos, meaning to ...

Plankton are hardly the only marine creatures at risk. Over 40 percent of reef-building corals are at risk of going extinct, according to a report also released Wednesday by the International ...

Researchers collected this mixture of plankton – small zooplanktonic animals, larvae and single cell protists – in the Pacific Ocean with a 0.1 mm mesh net. ©Christian Sardet/CNRS/Tara ...

Plankton comes in all shapes and sizes, but scientists divide them into two categories. Phytoplankton are the microscopic algae and other cells that drift in the sun-infused upper layer of the ocean.

Plankton Haven’t Been the Same Since the Industrial Revolution Changes in plankton populations over the past centuries correlate with rising sea temperatures ...

There’s a long-standing conundrum in ecology called the paradox of the plankton. Famously articulated by ecologist George Evelyn Hutchinson in 1961, the paradox explores how odd it is that there ...

Microscopic plankton are at the heart of the ocean’s food chain, feeding much bigger animals like whales.However, not much is known about how single-celled phytoplankton–most of which don’t ...