A bloom large enough to be visible from space shows up off the coast of New Jersey.
Published Jul 10, 2016
The dynamic colors of ocean phytoplankton blooms reflect a host of dynamic relationships occurring below the water line.
Published Jan 9, 2015
Phytoplankton blooms tend to show up in this Gulf in mid-summer and mid-autumn, but they can happen in winter too.
Published Apr 2, 2018
Unusually clear skies and persistent, unseasonable heat may have set the stage for large and persistent blooms of phytoplankton in the waters around England.
Published Jun 26, 2020
Phytoplankton and blue-green algae blooms off of Scandinavia seem to be particularly intense this summer.
Published Jul 23, 2018
Upwelling currents and summer weather promoted a large bloom of floating, microscopic plants off the coast of Oregon and Washington.
Published Jul 31, 2014
The waters off of Australia hosted an apparent bloom of Trichodesmium, an ancient, important, and ubiquitous type of microscopic sea life.
Published Oct 7, 2017
The waters off of the Alaskan coast usually come alive each spring with colorful swirls of phytoplankton.
Published Jul 14, 2018
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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In March 2017, phytoplankton bloomed off the coast of Tunisia.
Published Mar 25, 2017
July 2019 brought the latest display of a phytoplankton bloom that occurs every year in the North Atlantic Ocean.
Published Jul 15, 2019
Fueled by the Oyashio current, the waters off of northeastern Japan support a bounty of phytoplankton and fishes.
Published Jun 4, 2019
The Strait of Georgia turns milky green due to an “unprecedented” explosion of coccolithophores.
Published Sep 4, 2016
An ongoing phytoplankton bloom has painted the sea surface in jewel tones.
Published May 12, 2013
Changing conditions in the waters near Alaska promotes late summer phytoplankton growth.
Published Sep 19, 2014
In May 2020, a vivid phytoplankton bloom colored the surface waters of the country’s second-longest fjord.
Published Jun 10, 2020
The waters off of Newfoundland were colored by coccolithophore blooms for two months.
Published Sep 21, 2020
Phytoplankton swirled across the Arabian Sea on February 18, 2010, drawn into thin green ribbons by turbulent eddies.
Published Mar 8, 2010
Acquired August 9, 2010, this natural-color image shows peacock-blue swirls in the North Atlantic Ocean, east of Newfoundland.
Published Aug 11, 2010
Intense streaks of blue and green colored the South Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Argentina on November 15, 2009.
Published Nov 21, 2009
