The prospect of heat waves without end, increasingly destructive floods, relentless drought, rapidly rising sea levels, and the risk of “point of no return” tipping points require humanity to swiftly ...

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The experimental conservation project aims to create alternative spawning habitat for Great Lakes whitefish, which have suffered steep population declines.

The Deep Space Network enables communication with all the missions in space, from telescopes like Hubble to rovers and orbiters at Mars, and this week we feature one of those dishes alongside some ...

A new study suggests that some of the world’s oxygen-deprived oceans could eventually regain higher oxygen levels in the ...

Companies around the world are racing to patent the genetic building blocks of plankton – microscopic ocean life that produces much of the oxygen humans breathe – as a long-awaited United Nations ...

The ocean is losing its greenness, a new study has found: Global chlorophyll concentration, a proxy for phytoplankton biomass, declined over the past two decades, especially in coastal areas.

SEATTLE -- For decades, scientists believed Prochlorococcus, the smallest and most abundant phytoplankton on Earth, would thrive in a warmer world. But new research suggests the microscopic bacterium, ...

SEATTLE (AP) — For decades, scientists believed Prochlorococcus, the smallest and most abundant phytoplankton on Earth, would thrive in a warmer world. But new research suggests the microscopic ...

Phytoplankton in the waters around Antarctica are changing – and the shift could have big consequences for the climate and the entire Southern Ocean ecosystem. Over the past 25 years, scientists have ...

Photo Ash erupts high into the atmosphere from Kilauea in 2018. A new study found the eruption sparked a massive phytoplankton bloom that sequestered much of the carbon released during the eruption.

The revived organisms resumed their biological activities as if they hadn't been without oxygen and light for thousands of years. Reading time 2 minutes Scientists have resurrected 7,000-year-old ...