Amazing close-up photo shows tiny warrior organism fighting climate change.

This remarkable image of a coccolithophorus, entitled “Ocean Warriors”, is one of 12 finalists for the 2024 Beaker Street Science Photography Prize and was chosen because it demonstrates the scientific value of specialized photographic equipment or photographic processes.

The image was taken by Luke Brokensha, a research fellow and plankton ecologist at the Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies at the University of Tasmania in Hobart. It was obtained using a scanning electron microscope from a sample collected by the Southern Ocean Continuous Plankton Record (SO-CPR) program.