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

Zooplankton seen under a microscope at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay ... and threatening the entire marine food chain that is built on them. A year ago, NASA launched ...

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 ...

Food chains show the feeding relationships between organisms. Food webs show how all the food chains in an ecosystem interact. A food chain shows the feeding relationship between organisms.

Sustainable fisheries target plentiful species, including those smaller and lower on the food chain, because they can reproduce quickly to sustain their populations. They also mandate ...

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 ...

A food web is made up of a number of food chains. It shows all the food chains in an ecosystem. Here is an example of a food web: Although it looks complex, it is just several food chains joined ...