Plankton play a central role in a climate process that scientists now say may behave more aggressively than once thought. As ...

For the first time, zooplankton have been caught on film eating waste plastic from oceans, which effectively means we’re all eating plastic too, thanks to the food chain. The species of zooplankton ...

Duluth, Minnesota — On a mild September morning on the aft deck of the research vessel Blue Heron, Donn Branstrator sniffed the contents of a sampling bottle that some graduate students had just ...