Many phytoplankton are microscopic ... which have spread into virtually every part of the ocean, from the deepest sea trenches to the water’s surface, where they get caught in algae.

It uncovered how some microscopic single-celled ... a significant amount of carbon from the water surface. This helps feed other organisms in the ocean's food chain and increases the complexity ...

Some 140 million years ago, a free-living bacteria that could grab all the nitrogen it wanted out of the water it was ... nitrogen into the global ocean. Solving this microscopic riddle took ...

They suspected an impurity in the ocean water underneath the Amery Ice Shelf was turning some marine ice green. Their first thought was that dissolved organic carbon, microscopic particles of long ...

Marine microplastics are microscopic pieces of plastic ... to 0.005 microplastic pieces per cubic meter (pieces/m³) of ocean water, the medium group had 0.005 to one pieces/m³, the high group ...

A new part of an ocean plant cell has been discovered that might revolutionize farming one day. The structure can take nitrogen and convert it into the ingredient that helps all organisms grow.