Where plankton suffers, so does the entire ocean food chain. When environmenmental conditions change, often triggered by too much of a nutrient—such as nitrogen or phosphorus from fertilizer ...

Plankton are microscopic plants and animals that make up the base of the marine food chain, meaning they are a basic source of energy for marine life all the way up to large predators like sharks ...

The diagram shows how mercury can accumulate in the food chain. In the sea, tiny animals and plants called plankton absorb the mercury compounds. When the plankton are eaten by small fish ...

The researchers put the plankton in three categories ... deicing salt may not sufficiently protect a vital link in the food ...

HUMANS live in a plankton world. These minuscule organisms blanket the oceans, covering nearly three-quarters of the planet, ...

The result? A frightening phenomenon that's making seawater more acidic, spelling disaster for many marine animals, from plankton and coral up the food chain to sea stars, salmon, sea otters, whales — ...

I recently visited the blue whales in the Sea of Cortez near Loreto, Mexico. These majestic mammals, the largest among us, are 85 feet long. They are an endangered species.

But a warming world is throwing plankton into disarray and threatening the entire marine food chain that is built on them. A year ago, NASA launched a satellite that provided the most detailed ...

Some plankton combine calcium and dissolved carbonates ... the carbon and nutrients in their bodies either becomes part of the food chain or sinks to the ocean floor. Carbon is stored At the ...