Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Plankton are positively microscopic, but their importance to the planet is anything but. Unfortunately, they are now at risk due ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Radiolaria, a type of ocean plankton, pictured in symbiosis with microalgae. Plankton’s genetic makeup is drawing growing ...

They drift aimlessly at sea, soaking up sunlight from the sky and nutrients from the deep. Often invisible to the naked eye, these tiny invertebrates form the hidden backbone of ocean ecosystems.

New international research led by Professors Willy Baeyens and Yue Gao of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), published in One Earth, demonstrates that plankton is not only the basis of the marine ...

Tiny marine plankton that build calcium carbonate shells play an outsized role in regulating Earth’s climate, quietly pulling carbon from the atmosphere and helping lock it away in the deep ocean. New ...

Humanity has a long track record of making big changes with little forethought. From fossil fuels to AI, plastics to pesticides, we love innovating away our problems, only to find we’ve created ...

Researchers suggest that rising levels of humanmade chemicals, accumulating in marine plankton, might be used to monitor the impact of human activity on ecosystem health and perhaps study links ...

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 ...

Sign up for the Morning Brief email newsletter to get weekday updates from The Weather Channel and our meteorologists. Plankton are positively microscopic, but their ...

The treaty, which took effect a week ago, aims to protect biodiversity in international waters and prevent the takeover of marine life, which belongs to everyone. Among its key concerns are plankton, ...