Plastic doesn't biodegrade and so it enters the food chain. The artist wanted to show ... made out of plastic rubbish collected from the ocean. The plastic is connected to underwater sensors ...
Where plankton suffers, so does the entire ocean food chain. When environmenmental conditions change, often triggered by too much of a nutrient—such as nitrogen or phosphorus from fertilizer ...
A food chain shows how animals obtain their food ... recorded food chain involves over thirty organisms found in the deep ocean. Human activities like deforestation, pollution, and overfishing ...
“Our analysis suggests that the decimation of baleen whale populations from historical whaling could have had larger ...
Sea Otters: Effects of ocean acidification will be felt up the food chain. Marine mammals like sea otters that rely on shellfish may be in trouble. Studies show that, if left unchecked, within our ...
Phytoplankton form the foundation of the marine food chain, and climate change is shaking ... An image from PACE’s Ocean Color Instrument showing a type of phytoplankton called Synechococcus ...
Ocean ecosystems play a critical role in carbon storage and oxygen generation. Some of these ecosystems are under threat; others remain unexplored. Understanding how key players such as whales ...
Through one of the primary carbon storage mechanisms, the biological carbon pump, phytoplankton (microscopic marine plants at the bottom of the oceanic food chain) take up CO 2 in the surface ocean ...
If they die, there’ll be fewer big fish—and that could rattle the food chain. marine-plastic-ocean-fish-microplasticThe naturally oily surface slicks in which many ocean fish come of age are ...