Phytoplankton, tiny plant-like organisms in the ocean, are incredibly important for life on Earth. They're a major food ...

Scientists created a tool to study individual phytoplankton, helping predict climate effects and ocean health changes.

ROCKVILLE, MD – Phytoplankton, tiny plant-like organisms in the ocean, are incredibly important for life on Earth. They're a ...

Phytoplankton float at or near the surface of the ocean, where they can use the sunlight and their chlorophyll to create energy. In the process, they take in carbon dioxide and release oxygen.

Oxygen has two main ways of entering the ocean: surface mixing where air meets the water through wind and waves and subsequent vertical mixing into the ocean interior, and photosynthesis by ...

contributing at least 50% of the oxygen to Earth’s atmosphere. Seagrasses and phytoplankton near the ocean’s surface form the base of the aquatic food chain as they produce their own food ...

Plankton also has an environmental super-power. Like plants on land, phytoplankton takes in carbon dioxide and produces oxygen. In fact, these tiny organisms provide half of the oxygen that we ...

Interestingly, although green plants contribute much of the oxygen in the air we breathe, phytoplankton and cyanobacteria in the world's oceans are thought to produce between one-third and one ...

Marine phytoplankton is of great importance for climate regulation, contributing nearly 50% to global oxygen production and fixing atmospheric carbon dioxide. While numerous studies have investigated ...

In the nitrogen cycle, phytoplankton and other marine plants ... where microbes "eat" the organic nitrogen and use oxygen to respire and turn the nitrogen into nitrate. Ocean currents cycle ...