Plastic pollution tends to float near the surface and build up in large, rotating ocean currents known as gyres. The ...

Walt (oneminmicro) SIX weird microscopic creatures found in OCEAN WATER! Posted: April 11, 2025 | Last updated: May 30, 2025. More for You ...

Tardigrades sometimes eat nematodes, and vice versa, but in this case the baby water bear just needed to hitch a ride.

"The ocean is teeming with microscopic life," Adolfo Sánchez-Blanco said. "I wanted to make a video about this so that people could be aware of this." ...

The ocean’s changing color is yet another warning sign of human-driven climate change, according to a new study. Accessibility statement Skip to main content Democracy Dies in Darkness ...

Scientists have created a solar-powered sponge that transforms seawater into drinkable water using microscopic channels and ...

In a leap toward sustainable desalination, researchers have created a solar-powered sponge-like aerogel that turns seawater into drinkable water using just sunlight and a plastic cover. Unlike ...

Microscopic marine animals called zooplankton (pictured) can be enticed to ingest organic carbon particulates in seawater that are later confined to the deep ocean in the animals' feces.

It uncovered how some microscopic single-celled organisms that are too light to sink beyond 100 meters or so — like phytoplankton and bacteria — end up going deeper into the ocean where there ...

With a new kind of microscope, researchers got a different view of how marine snow falls to the seafloor. Marine snow sinking in an infinite water column created by an artificial “gravity ...

In spring, the days lengthen, the water warms slightly, nutrients flow into the ocean’s surface layers from land or deeper waters, and the phytoplankton bloom.

In landlocked Arizona, where the Colorado River crisis has put water use under a microscope, a new inland desert fish farm is growing barramundi — a tropical species native to Australia.