Plankton are the backbone of the ocean — and may struggle with what’s coming. A pair of papers in the journal Nature shows how plankton are struggling to survive in warming seas.

Plankton may be tiny, but they play an important role in the ocean. As the foundation of marine ecosystems, they support ocean food webs and help regulate Earth's climate by storing carbon. While ...

Instead, plankton-feeding is a highly accessible and flexible feeding strategy on coral reefs—available to fishes of many shapes, sizes, evolutionary histories, and even different feeding groups.

Plankton are hardly the only marine creatures at risk. Over 40 percent of reef-building corals are at risk of going extinct, according to a report also released Wednesday by the International ...

Humans are living in a plankton world. These minuscule organisms are spread across the oceans, covering nearly three-quarters of the planet, and are among the most abundant forms of life on Earth.

Road salt may hurt vital link in freshwater food chain, study says. The team tracked individual plankton them from birth to death and exposed them to various concentrations of sodium chloride ...