Girguis, a professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard, specializes in biochemistry and ecological physiology ...

A new study found that microbes in the Sargasso Sea divide nutrients throughout their communities over time, supporting ...

S tanford researchers have found a surprising genetic twist in a lineage of microbes that may play an important role in ocean carbon storage. The microbes, known as blue-green algae or ...

Mesoscale ocean eddies transport nutrients and energy-rich lipids, helping sustain marine ecosystems far from coasts.

Ultimately, Engelmann hopes that microbial community data will find their way to climate and ocean models. "The microbial food web is complex, bacteria and microbial eukaryotes have different ...

A growing industry is racing to engineer a solution to global warming using the absorbent power of the oceans.