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 ...

NASA is hosting a media teleconference about a new technique that enables scientists to determine what limits the growth of ocean plants and affects world climate. The telecom starts at 1 p.m. EDT ...

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 ...

Plastic pollution in the ocean is a major problem, from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch to the microplastics that have been found in marine environments all over the planet, even the Arctic. While ...

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 ...

We're going to zoom in on this next story. Actually, zoom way in. A team of scientists looking at a microscopic mystery recently won a top prize from the publisher of the journal Science. Reporter Ari ...

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(CNN) — On a slice of the ocean front in west Singapore, a startup is building a plant to turn carbon dioxide from air and seawater into the same material as seashells, in a process that will also ...