Phytoplankton ... their instrument had picked up the beginning of an algae bloom that extended for 60 miles into the ice on the Chukchi Sea continental shelf. Not only had the team discovered ...

Harmful algal blooms, sometimes called HABs, occur when algae grow out of control. Algae are photosynthetic organisms that ...

Under the sea ice during the Arctic’s pitch-black polar night, cells power photosynthesis on the lowest light levels ever ...

from the deepest sea trenches to the water’s surface, where they get caught in algae. Microplastics can then block phytoplankton from receiving enough sunlight to survive. (Additionally ...

Large blooms of tiny marine plants called phytoplankton are flourishing in areas of open water left exposed by the recent and rapid melting of ice shelves ... sinks to the sea-bed where it can ...

Across 92 stations, representing a year-round average, the food volume in krill stomachs comprised 71 ± 29% algae, 17 ± 21% protozoans ... copepod consumption increased with phytoplankton abundance.

Understanding how key players such as whales, plankton ... it is absorbed by seagrasses and algae. Seagrasses, which are plants adapted to live in the sea, are different from kelp and other ...

Sea ice is dynamic. It expands and contracts ... As light trickles through the ice, a home is created for microscopic algae and plankton, which feed fish and whales, and, in turn, seals, beluga ...

Toxic algae blooms have plagued popular beaches and ... afternoon outside a possible Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility near Highway 130 and Highway 45 in Pflugerville.