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 ...

The Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), the most powerful ocean current on Earth, is slowing down due to the rapid melting ...

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

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 ...

goes up with each level of the food web. Zooplankton were twice as common at shallow seamounts than in the open ocean, while shark biomass was 41 times higher. "Our findings suggest that several ...

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 ...