The spectacle, often caused by a bloom of bioluminescent phytoplankton, such as dinoflagellates, has many asking why organisms would risk burning energy trying to produce such captivating light in ...

Around the summer solstice, phytoplankton reach their peak numbers ... The best times to view bioluminescence are in the summer and fall on dark, cloudy nights. In the United States, some of ...

relative to our usual background of 30,000 phytoplankton cells per liter.” There are many other locations around the world where you can experience the majestic natural beauty. Bioluminescent ...

Naturally, she said, phytoplankton can get these nutrients by upwelling, where wind blows surface water away and cold nutrient-rich water rises to the surface. Shipe also said bioluminescent waves ...

“Marine biologists today note, almost everywhere, a decline in plankton biodiversity,” Mollo says in another interview. “When this diversity decreases, that of the zooplankton which feeds on it ...

The annual lightshow along the Welsh coast has begun again, with glowing phytoplankton marking shorelines with an eerie blue from bioluminescence. The phenomenon can been seen in footage from ...