Our oceans are becoming more acidic, which could have major consequences for marine life. Of particular concern is what this ...

Ocean acidification phytoplankton research published in Nature Geoscience shows that rising CO2 forces marine phytoplankton to shed phosphorus from their cell membranes in a process that 1,000 ...

Our Milford Lab hosted three Canadian scientists to study the effects of marine carbon dioxide removal strategies and foster ...

A new taxonomic class of oceanic phytoplankton, Rappephyceae, has been named in honor of Michael Rappé, a professor at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology.

Tiny photosynthetic organisms in the Baltic Sea can contribute substantially to the transport of carbon from surface waters ...

Phytoplankton, tiny photosynthetic organisms in the ocean, play a crucial role in the global carbon cycle and influence Earth's climate. A new study reveals how variations in the physiology of ...

Plankton — tiny organisms that are present in salt and freshwater — account for about half of the photosynthesis on the planet. But what scientists have assumed for many years to be plant plankton ...

The discovery of two new and unusual species of diatoms (phytoplankton) in Hawaiian waters was announced by a team of University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa researchers in the Department of Oceanography’s ...

Phytoplankton are the foundation of ocean ecosystems: like rainforests, they consume carbon from the atmosphere, form the basis of the marine food web and have a decisive influence on fish abundance ...