Phytoplankton swirled across the Arabian Sea on February 18, 2010, drawn into thin green ribbons by turbulent eddies.
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Phytoplankton explosions off the east and west coasts of the United States have both benign and harmful impacts.
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A bloom large enough to be visible from space shows up off the coast of New Jersey.
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The dynamic colors of ocean phytoplankton blooms reflect a host of dynamic relationships occurring below the water line.
Waters of the Arabian Sea are witnessing a sea change in the composition of its tiny inhabitants.
Winds in southwest Asia mix dust into the atmosphere and seed a striking bloom in the sea.
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A colorful image of the Arabian Sea shows the various types of activities occurring in the waters.
The waters off of Australia hosted an apparent bloom of Trichodesmium, an ancient, important, and ubiquitous type of microscopic sea life.
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Nearly every summer, phytoplankton trace the sea’s currents, eddies, and flows.
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A phytoplankton bloom appeared in one of the world’s busiest oil waterways.
Phytoplankton and blue-green algae blooms off of Scandinavia seem to be particularly intense this summer.
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In early September, ocean scientists noticed something swirling in the waters off the coast of the Brazilian state of São Paulo.
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Changing conditions in the waters near Alaska promotes late summer phytoplankton growth.