When tiny marine plants are exposed to mineral enriched dust blown into the sea from the land, they bloom over thousands of ...

They drift aimlessly at sea, soaking up sunlight from the sky and nutrients from the deep. Often invisible to the naked eye, ...

Some plankton combine calcium and dissolved carbonates ... the carbon in their carcasses can create a feast for deep-sea critters and also be buried in marine sediments. Ocean deposits are by ...

The ability to track phytoplankton has largely depended on space satellites observing the sea surface. Yet, phytoplankton can grow below the surface where satellites cannot detect them ...