Zooplankton seen under a microscope at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay ... is throwing plankton ...

Marine life off the Los Angeles coast may still be impacted by the effects of a long-disused DDT dumping site, a report from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and San Diego ...

The Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), the most powerful ocean current on Earth, is slowing down due to the rapid melting ...

If shellfish populations collapse, the animals that eat them will also suffer, with ripple effects throughout the ocean's food web. Two important planetary ecosystems, coral reefs and polar regions, ...

Researchers say slowdown of ACC may allow invasive species to reach Antarctica, threatening fragile food webs and species ...

Pteropods are tiny snails that are found throughout the oceans and are an important link in the marine food web. They’re gobbled up by a variety ... Sea Otters: Effects of ocean acidification will be ...

A more acidic ocean will cause some types to grow slower, some to grow faster, and the balance among them to change, which could have big ripple effects for the higher levels of the food web.

"If this current 'engine' breaks down, there could be severe consequences, including more climate variability, with greater ...

Ocean ecosystems depend on these predators and ... Scientists have had difficulty studying their contribution to marine food webs, in part because they can't coax these organisms to grow in ...