It uncovered how some microscopic single-celled ... a significant amount of carbon from the water surface. This helps feed other organisms in the ocean's food chain and increases the complexity ...

Zooplankton seen under a microscope at the Bigelow Laboratory ... all while getting soaked in frigid ocean water and battling seasickness as the boat bounced up and down. Dr. Fields, right ...

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 ...

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 ...