In March 2017, phytoplankton bloomed off the coast of Tunisia.
Published Mar 25, 2017
Phytoplankton explosions off the east and west coasts of the United States have both benign and harmful impacts.
Published Aug 9, 2015
An ongoing phytoplankton bloom has painted the sea surface in jewel tones.
Published May 12, 2013
Upwelling currents and summer weather promoted a large bloom of floating, microscopic plants off the coast of Oregon and Washington.
Published Jul 31, 2014
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
The waters off of Newfoundland were colored by coccolithophore blooms for two months.
Published Sep 21, 2020
Acquired February 9, 2010, this true-color image shows jewel-toned water caused by a phytoplankton bloom off the coast of Argentina. Roughly mimicking the coastline, the bloom forms a giant semicircle in the Atlantic Ocean.
Published Feb 10, 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
In May 2020, a vivid phytoplankton bloom colored the surface waters of the country’s second-longest fjord.
Published Jun 10, 2020
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
Scientists show that a virus was responsible for the collapse of a large coccolithophore bloom in the North Atlantic.
Published Nov 26, 2014
Several phytoplankton blooms swirled in the waters of the Caspian Sea.
Published Aug 9, 2017
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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Intense streaks of blue and green colored the South Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Argentina on November 15, 2009.
Published Nov 21, 2009
July 2019 brought the latest display of a phytoplankton bloom that occurs every year in the North Atlantic Ocean.
Published Jul 15, 2019
The waters around Newfoundland have been teeming with phytoplankton since the beginning of September.
Published Sep 23, 2019
The dynamic colors of ocean phytoplankton blooms reflect a host of dynamic relationships occurring below the water line.
Published Jan 9, 2015
The swirling greens and blues are densely concentrated, microscopic plants growing on the surface of the ocean.
Published Dec 3, 2015
