Do you like a planet that hasn’t yet melted? Do you like sushi? How about breathing? Then you’re secretly in love with plankton, tiny marine organisms that float around at the mercy of currents. They ...

In 1925, zoologist Sir Alister Hardy launched a survey of plankton while he was exploring Antarctica. Almost 100 years later, I’m continuing part of that same endeavour, called the Continuous Plankton ...

Abigail McQuatters-Gollop receives funding from Natural Environment Research Council and the Department for Food, Environment and Rural Affairs. If you go to the beach and dip a bucket in the sea, you ...