Zooplankton seen under a microscope at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay ... is throwing plankton ...

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 ...

"If this current 'engine' breaks down, there could be severe consequences, including more climate variability, with greater ...

Princeton University and Xiamen University researchers report that in tropical and subtropical oligotrophic waters, ocean ...

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.

DNA sequencing is making it possible for scientists to identify thousands of species of zooplankton – drifting animals that are key links in ocean food webs. Biologists are finding new evidence ...

Ocean ecosystems depend on these predators and ... Scientists have had difficulty studying their contribution to marine food webs, in part because they can't coax these organisms to grow in ...