A bloom large enough to be visible from space shows up off the coast of New Jersey.
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Phytoplankton and blue-green algae blooms off of Scandinavia seem to be particularly intense this summer.
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In May 2020, a vivid phytoplankton bloom colored the surface waters of the country’s second-longest fjord.
Phytoplankton explosions off the east and west coasts of the United States have both benign and harmful impacts.
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An ongoing phytoplankton bloom has painted the sea surface in jewel tones.
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Upwelling currents and summer weather promoted a large bloom of floating, microscopic plants off the coast of Oregon and Washington.
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The swirling greens and blues are densely concentrated, microscopic plants growing on the surface of the ocean.
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Several phytoplankton blooms swirled in the waters of the Caspian Sea.
The waters off of Newfoundland were colored by coccolithophore blooms for two months.
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Phytoplankton require sunlight, water, and nutrients to grow.
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Phytoplankton blooms tend to show up in this Gulf in mid-summer and mid-autumn, but they can happen in winter too.
Satellite imagers captured the transition from one blooming phytoplankton genus to another in the Barents Sea in the summer of 2014.
Changing conditions in the waters near Alaska promotes late summer phytoplankton growth.
Phytoplankton color the water with a burst of spring growth.
Fueled by the Oyashio current, the waters off of northeastern Japan support a bounty of phytoplankton and fishes.
Seasonal blooms of phytoplankton off Japan are provoked by nutrient rich currents in the northwestern Pacific Ocean.