Learn how microscopic fossils reveal that tiny seafloor organisms were already feeding and recycling nutrients soon after one ...

How nutrients from Europa's icy shell reach its ocean has been unclear despite several theories.

Microscopic ocean algae produce a huge share of Earth’s oxygen—but they need iron to do it. New field research shows that when iron is scarce, phytoplankton waste energy and photosynthesis falters.

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

By the late 1990s, scientists realized that virus activity was likely shaping how carbon and nutrients cycled through ocean ...

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

A recent study by geophysicists at Washington State University offers insight into how nutrients may reach the subsurface ...