These huge blooms sink to the sea floor when the plankton die, transporting carbon to the deep sea and helping to fight climate change. While plankton blooms like this are usually natural ...
[New Paper] Meet Delectopecten thermus, a new species of Glass Scallop from a deep-sea hot vent in Okinawa Trough, Japan! We ...
Plankton are a collection of tiny organisms ... which have spread into virtually every part of the ocean, from the deepest sea trenches to the water’s surface, where they get caught in algae.
Zooplankton also store carbon from the atmosphere, which, when excreted by these organisms, for instance, can sink into the deep ocean, thus transporting carbon and locking it away. Without this ...