These strange microorganisms are like nothing we see on the surface, perfectly adapted to life regularly subjected to the extremely high pressure, cold, and lack of nutrients found beneath kilometers ...

Many phytoplankton are microscopic ... which have spread into virtually every part of the ocean, from the deepest sea trenches to the water’s surface, where they get caught in algae.

Marine microplastics are microscopic pieces of plastic ... to 0.005 microplastic pieces per cubic meter (pieces/m³) of ocean water, the medium group had 0.005 to one pieces/m³, the high group ...

They suspected an impurity in the ocean water underneath the Amery Ice Shelf was turning some marine ice green. Their first thought was that dissolved organic carbon, microscopic particles of long ...

Through one of the primary carbon storage mechanisms, the biological carbon pump, phytoplankton (microscopic marine plants at the bottom of the oceanic food chain) take up CO 2 in the surface ocean ...