Satellite imagers captured the transition from one blooming phytoplankton genus to another in the Barents Sea in the summer of 2014.
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Acquired December 17, 2010, this natural-color image shows a sediment-laden Lago Alajuela, a reservoir of the Panama Canal.
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MODIS caught a clear view of an explosion of phytoplankton—a rare treat since the Barents Sea is cloud-covered roughly 80 percent of the summer.
Unusually clear skies and persistent, unseasonable heat may have set the stage for large and persistent blooms of phytoplankton in the waters around England.
A key shipping route through Egypt recently received a major overhaul.
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The summer season is a prime time to observe colorful displays of phytoplankton in the Labrador and Barents seas.
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This passage through the Peloponnese Peninsula was 2500 years in the making.
Late spring weather in the southern hemisphere brings intense blooms to the nutrient-rich waters off Patagonia.
A bloom of coccolithophores imparted a milky turquoise color to a fjord in western Washington’s Puget Sound.
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