It's spring, the sun is shining and something is about to happen with the plankton in the cold waters of the Arctic Ocean.

Large copepods are eaten by larval fish, which scientists also classify as plankton since they are too weak and small to swim against the ocean currents. These larvae grow into fish that are eaten ...

Seamounts attract sharks and marine predators, with 41 times more sharks than open waters. These mountains act as social hubs ...

drifting freely with currents. And like plants, they also release oxygen, contributing at least 50% of the oxygen to Earth’s atmosphere. Seagrasses and phytoplankton near the ocean’s surface ...

A recent theory proposes that whales weren’t just predators in the ocean environment: Nutrients that whales excreted may have ...

We eat fish from the ocean, we breathe the oxygen it gives off, we feel the warmth of its huge currents. Without a healthy ocean ... With fewer fish around, jellyfish have less competition for the ...

As crews work to remove potentially hundreds of thousands of tons of hazardous materials from the Los Angeles wildfires, ...

On the current path, ocean acidification will be detrimental ... causing mass mortalities of oysters in the Pacific Northwest. Plankton in the Southern Ocean are building thinner and weaker shells, ...

The team analyzed whale poop for iron, known to be especially limited in the Southern Ocean, as well as copper.

A CSIR study analysing 26 years of satellite data reveals how ocean warming is significantly reducing ocean productivity ...

New research, led by the University of Plymouth and published in the journal Ocean and Coastal Management, highlights the benefits of combining existing long-term plankton monitoring programmes and em ...