Plankton, found in lakes, oceans, steams, and rivers, are the lungs of the planet.

Global temperature records are expected to exceed the 1.5 °C threshold for the first time this year. This has happened much sooner than predicted. So can life on the planet adapt quickly enough? In ...

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 ...

Researchers in the UK have shown how the distributions of two phytoplankton groups—known to produce natural toxins that can ...

"It contains a collection of sub-cellular organelles that look very much like the lens, cornea, iris and retina of multicellular eyes found in humans and other large animals." Due to its complicated ...

Scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography have identified a microscopic “ruthless predator” that could ...

The decline in plankton abundance in the North East Atlantic over the past six decades should serve as a red flag to policy makers about the need to protect some of the planet's most critical forms of ...

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Researchers collected this mixture of plankton – small zooplanktonic animals, larvae and single cell protists – in the Pacific Ocean with a 0.1 mm mesh net. ©Christian Sardet/CNRS/Tara Expéditions A ...

Scientists have cracked open the structure of a one-celled organism's mysterious eye, which they believe it may have evolved to better see its prey. The single-celled marine plankton, known as a ...