It's slightly larger than a 5-liter water bottle, and is whizzing around the Earth at a speed of 7.5 kilometers per second.

A high-resolution analysis of the global diversity of fossils spanning 2 billion years shows how a series of super ice ages ...

Algae, more complex than bacteria but still ... revealed the phosphate nutrient outburst following the Snowball Earth, says the new revelations are "incredibly important". "It gives the first ...

A 2014 satellite photo of the Sivash region shows off the kaleidoscopic colors of a series of shallow, hypersaline lagoons — each filled with a different kind of algae. When you purchase through ...

new measurements confirm. On Alaska’s Harding Icefield, these microbes are responsible for about a sixth of the snowmelt in algae-tinged areas, researchers report September 18 in Nature Geoscience.

Copernicus Sentinel-3 measures systematically Earth’s oceans, land, ice, and atmosphere to monitor and understand large-scale global dynamics. Algae in the South Atlantic often quickly develop ...