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

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 ...

In the cold, lightless Pacific Ocean deep, the seabed is scattered with metal-rich rocks coveted by miners—and huge numbers ...

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, ...

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.