Scientists are gaining new insights into how plankton supports life on Earth — just as climate change is changing everything.

The Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), the most powerful ocean current on Earth, is slowing down due to the rapid melting of Antarctic ice sheets. Scientists project a 20% slowdown by 2050, a shift ...

Sign our petition to help protect ocean life from ocean acidification ... with ripple effects throughout the ocean's food web. Two important planetary ecosystems, coral reefs and polar regions, are on ...

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 60, No. 2 (2015), pp. 429-445 (17 pages) An understanding of the origin and fate of organic matter deposited on the seabed in the Chukchi Sea is critical to our ...

Plastic pollution fills our oceans, choking wildlife and carrying toxins throughout the food web — yet industry is increasing ... posing huge threats to marine species and the ocean web of life. • ...

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 ...