Zooplankton seen under a microscope at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean ... of life on Earth. But a warming world is throwing plankton into disarray and threatening the entire marine food chain ...

How is organic matter transported from productive coastal areas to the open ocean? Researchers have now shown that eddies play a crucial role in this process. The swirling currents contain large ...

In the vibrant yet fragile waters of the Gulf of Oman, spectacular phytoplankton blooms – visible even from space – unfold in ...

The significant ecological imbalance in South Africa's False Bay is primarily due to the rapid collapse and absence of Great white sharks since 2015.

The more levels a food web has, the less energy reaches the organisms in the highest positions, such as predatory fish. "The phytoplankton of the central Baltic Sea has changed considerably over ...

Levels of lead and other heavy metals spiked in L.A.’s coastal waters after the January fires, raising serious concerns for ...

More than half a billion years ago on a frigid, ice-covered Earth, glaciers stirred up ingredients for complex life by bulldozing ... forming the basis of aquatic food webs. However, researchers ...