For half a century, merchant ships have hitched humble metal boxes to their sterns, and towed these robotic passengers across some 6.5 million nautical miles of the world’s oceans. The metal boxes are ...

When Chris Melrose began his career at the Northeast Fisheries Science Center's Narragansett Laboratory, little did he realize where his work studying primary productivity and dissolved oxygen would ...

Handwritten logbooks chronicling ocean plankton since the 1950s have revealed another statistic: the rise in ocean plastic. The data are a byproduct of records compiled by the continuous plankton ...

A new study used log books from 60 years of plankton research to document the increase in the amount of plastic in the ocean. The study’s authors tabulated the entanglements of the continuous plankton ...

Understanding plankton is essential to studying how ocean life is sustained. tonaquatic/iStock This article is from Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ...

The UK's plankton population - microscopic algae and animals which support the entire marine food web - has undergone sweeping changes in the past six decades, according to new research published in ...

The decline in plankton abundance in the North East Atlantic over the past six decades should serve as a red flag to policy makers about the need to protect some of the planet's most critical forms of ...