A NASA-sponsored study shows that by using a new technique, scientists can determine what limits the growth of ocean algae, or phytoplankton, and how this affects Earth’s climate. Phytoplankton is a ...

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Sea sawdust blooms in the Coral Sea, forming strips of growth so large that they’re visible in satellite photos. Sea sawdust is key in keeping the nutrient-poor tropical and subtropical oceans around ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- Climate change is forcing marine plants and animals to move, adapt or die. Stanford biologist Steve Palumbi has found a coral species that is coping surprisingly well, and his ...

Microscopic plants in the ocean, called phytoplankton, are among the most important creatures on Earth and produce half of the planet's oxygen. But they are in trouble. A new study finds that since ...

Can this ocean-based carbon plant help save the world? Some scientists are raising red flags (CNN) — On a slice of the ocean front in west Singapore, a startup is building a plant to turn carbon ...

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A few years ago, NASA researcher Watson Gregg published a study showing that tiny free-floating ocean plants called phytoplankton had declined in abundance globally by 6 percent between the 1980s and ...

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) will lead the first international, multidisciplinary assessment of the levels and dispersion of radioactive substances in the Pacific Ocean off the ...