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Plankton
Plankton are plants and animals the live in water but are unable to propel themselves and therefore are only moved by the power generated from tides and currents. Many planters provide food for aquatic animals. Plankton of the plant variety are referred to as phytoplankton and those that are animals are called zooplankton.
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APR 02, 2025Earth & The Environment
Scientists have grown algae that was collected from the bottom of the Baltic Sea, and which probably sank about 7,000 ye ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 13, 2024Earth & The Environment
Plankton are a diverse group of marine organisms, which are carried by tides and currents. Most are microscopic, but the ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 05, 2024Earth & The Environment
The golden mussel is an invasive species that has used the ballast water of ships to spread to many places, and wreak ha ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 18, 2024Earth & The Environment
The planet has many interconnected cycles. A new study in Science has examined the role of inorganic Zinc (Zn) in the bi ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 26, 2024Earth & The Environment
How are local fishermen adapting to the ongoing and increasing effects of climate change? This is what a recent study pu ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScNOV 09, 2023Earth & The Environment
Salt distribution in the ocean has a significant influence on the regulation of the Earth's climate, according to new re ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 22, 2023Earth & The Environment
Human-cause climate change has many effects — more frequent and more extreme natural disasters, melting ice caps, ...Written By: Amelia RhodelandJUN 04, 2023Earth & The Environment
A recent study published in Biology Letters examines how the evolution of bivalves—which are a class of invertebra ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScMAY 05, 2023Earth & The Environment
The mesopelagic zone of the ocean, also called “the twilight zone,” refers to the ocean at an approximate de ...Written By: Amelia RhodelandMAY 02, 2023Microbiology
The Tara Oceans project has been aiming to reveal more about the vast world of marine microbes, which we now know little ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 20, 2023Earth & The Environment
During its approximately 4.5 billion years of existence, the planet Earth has been home to around 8.7 million species of ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJAN 13, 2023Earth & The Environment
New research suggests a better time frame for when the Bering Land Bridge formed and flooded, and when humans migrated a ...Written By: Brittany Kenyon-FlattJUN 29, 2022Microbiology
By analyzing over 1,000 samples of the marine environment, researchers have reconstructed the genomes of 25,000 novel mi ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 26, 2022Earth & The Environment
Oil slicks, or spills, are a type of marine pollution on the ocean surface resulting from spills from ships, oil and gas ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJAN 22, 2022Space & Astronomy
Arriving at Jupiter in 2016, the NASA-funded Juno spacecraft has been beaming back the most detailed and jaw-dropping im ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScDEC 31, 2021Earth & The Environment
Light pollution is a newly recognized source of pollution with many complexities. What is light pollution to one person ...Written By: Samantha LottDEC 17, 2021Space & Astronomy
During a flyby of Ganymede, a moon of Jupiter, the Juno spacecraft made a recording on June 7, 2021. The frequency of th ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 28, 2021Earth & The Environment
Researchers at the University of Michigan have figured out how to more accurately track microplastics in the ocean using ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJAN 19, 2021Earth & The Environment
In an interdisciplinary collaboration, researchers from MBARI, the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, and Woods Hole Oc ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanDEC 07, 2020Plants & Animals
NOAA researchers used video taken on an underwater expedition to identify a new species of comb jellyfish, or ctenophore ...Written By: Carmen LeitchOCT 26, 2020Earth & The Environment
A team of researchers from USC, Columbia University, University of Washington, MIT and the University of Hawaii, have fo ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAUG 06, 2020Drug Discovery & Development
One of our current global threats is antibiotic resistance. As more biofilm-associated infections are ...Written By: Nouran AminJUN 01, 2020Microbiology
Single-celled ocean microbes known as Pelagibacter or SAR11 make up about 25 percent of the plankton on the planet.Written By: Carmen LeitchAPR 12, 2020Plants & Animals
These Aurelia jellyfish roam the void of the ocean in massive groups, an occurrence that doesn’t happen by acciden ...Written By: Anthony Bouchard
APR 02, 2025
Earth & The Environment
Scientists have grown algae that was collected from the bottom of the Baltic Sea, and which probably sank about 7,000 ye
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 13, 2024
Earth & The Environment
Plankton are a diverse group of marine organisms, which are carried by tides and currents. Most are microscopic, but the
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 05, 2024
Earth & The Environment
The golden mussel is an invasive species that has used the ballast water of ships to spread to many places, and wreak ha
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 18, 2024
Earth & The Environment
The planet has many interconnected cycles. A new study in Science has examined the role of inorganic Zinc (Zn) in the bi
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 26, 2024
Earth & The Environment
How are local fishermen adapting to the ongoing and increasing effects of climate change? This is what a recent study pu
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
NOV 09, 2023
Earth & The Environment
Salt distribution in the ocean has a significant influence on the regulation of the Earth's climate, according to new re
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 22, 2023
Earth & The Environment
Human-cause climate change has many effects — more frequent and more extreme natural disasters, melting ice caps,
...
Written By:
Amelia Rhodeland
JUN 04, 2023
Earth & The Environment
A recent study published in Biology Letters examines how the evolution of bivalves—which are a class of invertebra
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
MAY 05, 2023
Earth & The Environment
The mesopelagic zone of the ocean, also called “the twilight zone,” refers to the ocean at an approximate de
...
Written By:
Amelia Rhodeland
MAY 02, 2023
Microbiology
The Tara Oceans project has been aiming to reveal more about the vast world of marine microbes, which we now know little
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 20, 2023
Earth & The Environment
During its approximately 4.5 billion years of existence, the planet Earth has been home to around 8.7 million species of
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JAN 13, 2023
Earth & The Environment
New research suggests a better time frame for when the Bering Land Bridge formed and flooded, and when humans migrated a
...
Written By:
Brittany Kenyon-Flatt
JUN 29, 2022
Microbiology
By analyzing over 1,000 samples of the marine environment, researchers have reconstructed the genomes of 25,000 novel mi
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 26, 2022
Earth & The Environment
Oil slicks, or spills, are a type of marine pollution on the ocean surface resulting from spills from ships, oil and gas
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JAN 22, 2022
Space & Astronomy
Arriving at Jupiter in 2016, the NASA-funded Juno spacecraft has been beaming back the most detailed and jaw-dropping im
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
DEC 31, 2021
Earth & The Environment
Light pollution is a newly recognized source of pollution with many complexities. What is light pollution to one person
...
Written By:
Samantha Lott
DEC 17, 2021
Space & Astronomy
During a flyby of Ganymede, a moon of Jupiter, the Juno spacecraft made a recording on June 7, 2021. The frequency of th
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 28, 2021
Earth & The Environment
Researchers at the University of Michigan have figured out how to more accurately track microplastics in the ocean using
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JAN 19, 2021
Earth & The Environment
In an interdisciplinary collaboration, researchers from MBARI, the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, and Woods Hole Oc
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
DEC 07, 2020
Plants & Animals
NOAA researchers used video taken on an underwater expedition to identify a new species of comb jellyfish, or ctenophore
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 26, 2020
Earth & The Environment
A team of researchers from USC, Columbia University, University of Washington, MIT and the University of Hawaii, have fo
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
AUG 06, 2020
Drug Discovery & Development
One of our current global threats is antibiotic resistance. As more biofilm-associated infections are
...
Written By:
Nouran Amin
JUN 01, 2020
Microbiology
Single-celled ocean microbes known as Pelagibacter or SAR11 make up about 25 percent of the plankton on the planet.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 12, 2020
Plants & Animals
These Aurelia jellyfish roam the void of the ocean in massive groups, an occurrence that doesn’t happen by acciden
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard