As of March 16, average ice cover across the lakes was roughly 13.5%. Lake Superior was at 9.2%, and Lake Michigan was at 10.7%.

Scientists are gaining new insights into how plankton supports life on Earth — just as climate change is changing everything.

Greece's imposing, clear-blue beaches are drowning in trash and plastic with the situation across the Mediterranean being no ...

It’s not the white fluffy look-alike our kids snuggle or the cartoon image drinking Coca-Cola or “fat loungers who draw crowds at zoos” or animated replicas who speak to our children with ...

This forms the foundation of food chains in the ocean and is consumed by secondary producers like zooplankton. Furthermore, warming of the marine realm due to climate change has increased ocean ...

"I study zooplankton. I want to understand what differentiates ... the processes affecting organisms one step higher up the food chain. "We would like to know more about biodiversity and the ...

These zooplankton are the main food sources for young walleye ... They are at the top of the food chain in many lake ecosystems like Lake Mendota, so a change in their population would have a domino ...

Mark Rowe reports on the failure to agree on an international treaty to limit plastic pollution and what our best hopes are ...

This sudden decrease in primary production would disrupt the food chain, affecting both terrestrial ... Diatoms would thrive, providing a food source for zooplankton, which form the base of ...

Plankton and krill are both important members of the food chain. Phytoplankton are eaten by zooplankton, like krill, and those zooplankton grow to become a major source of food for larger creatures, ...