As climate change intensifies harmful algal blooms worldwide, an international team led by Hiroshima University has developed ...

Zooplankton are already emerging as a major biological pathway for microplastics to transport through marine ecosystems. With over 125 trillion microplastic particles estimated to have accumulated in ...

A new study has, for the first time, recorded and measured just how fast microplastics move through the gut passage of a key zooplankton species in real time—and used those measurements to estimate ...

The Idaho State Department of Agriculture is yet to find invasive quagga mussels in the Middle Snake River as annual water sampling continues. Crews detected quagga mussel veligers, or larvae, in the ...

The glassy waters of Hazelwood Lake, in northern Ontario, shatter as a plankton net crashes through the surface. Nathan Wilson, a doctoral candidate with Lakehead University’s environmental and ...

Dave Setterholm holds a plankton net on Farm Lake on July 25 near Ely, Minn., while demonstrating some of the tests he regularly performs on the lake. Setterholm is water monitoring director for the ...

Colorado Parks and Wildlife has begun aquatic nuisance species sampling efforts on the Colorado River for 2025. Shoreline and water sampling will be conducted weekly along sections of the Colorado ...