It makes up less than 1% of the world's oceans but produces nearly 8% of global fish stocks — a staggering amount of food and ...

Global research shows how plankton adapt their cell membranes to survive changing ocean light, nutrients, and temperature.

Although these microscopic organisms are among the ocean’s smallest, their “blooms” are often visible from space. Phytoplankton are critical to making the planet livable and contribute to ...

Other animals rarely bothered eating them, the idea went, so they represented a dead end in the ocean’s food web. “Historically, they were just ignored,” says Thomas Doyle, a marine ...

The ocean’s most feared but fascinating predators ... and benefits – could threaten species at the top of the ocean food chain, harming conservation efforts and commercial fishing.

In the ocean food chain, large sharks generally only have to worry about keeping orcas at bay — but a new study suggests the apex predators may have to watch out for their own. This isn't the ...

but this old source is still polluting the deep-ocean biota, which is really alarming ... and marine mammals higher and higher up the food chain. Hoh joined forces with Aluwihare’s lab ...

A small team of environmental and ocean scientists in Australia, known as Whale X, may have discovered a way to remove carbon from the atmosphere efficiently, Hakai Magazine reported. The key to ...

While not appetizing to you or me, Melosira arctica forms the foundation of the Arctic Ocean food chain. During the spring and summer, its individual photosynthetic cells grow quickly ...

“Ocean food webs do tend to be longer than the grass-deer-wolf food chain of land animals, because you start with such small organisms,” said Kast, now at the University of Cambridge, who wrote the ...

Earth's oceans are getting greener, scientists have found using satellite imagery. More than 56% of the Earth's oceans have changed color over the past 20 years. It's not clear exactly what's ...