Learn about the importance of phytoplankton and its significant contribution to ocean primary production and ecology.

Today, the Great Salt Lake of Utah has multiples of the ocean's salt concentration. But it didn't used to be so salty. In ...

A trio of oceanographers and mathematicians at Dalhousie University, in Canada, has found evidence that the populations of ...

A groundbreaking study by researchers from Chongqing University and the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, reveals ...

Trees get most of the love, but diatoms, a group of photosynthetic microalgae, produce 20% of Earth's oxygen and are the ...

Research finds diatoms evolved slowly for 100 million years and then experienced an evolutionary burst of speciation 170 million years ago.

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Abstract: In this paper we report a systematic study on the modifications induced in Skeletonema sp. diatoms by seawater contaminated by copper. The study has been conducted by applying both standard ...

Photosynthesis, the natural process of converting sunlight energy into chemical energy and generating molecular oxygen, is a ...

Here we investigated how growth rate depended on temperature at two contrasting nitrogen concentrations in six marine diatoms isolated from different thermal environments, including the tropics. Low ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. In Victorian England, a very curious art form flourished: making intricate patterns from the microalgae known as ...

Polymetallic nodules are home to many deep-sea species, such as this bryozoan, image by Adrian Glover, Thomas Dahlgren, Helena Wiklund Our scientists are pioneering techniques that will accelerate the ...