Scientists' yearlong study on Antarctic microbial communities reveals how climate change alters bacterial and phytoplankton ...

Red tides are one of nature’s most captivating yet perplexing phenomena. These events, characterized by the reddish ...

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

The bountiful creatures sequester carbon and are a vital food source for marine predators, but their future is uncertain ...

Bacteria and other single-celled microorganisms in the seas around Antarctica are strongly influenced by water temperature ...

Whales transport vital nutrients from urine, placentas, carcasses and sloughing skin across oceans that help to keep marine ecosystems healthy, a study has revealed. Researchers found that these ...

Whales do more than just swim the seas—they power the ocean's ecosystem. By transporting nutrients from deep waters to the ...

“Phytoplankton is blooming in the … Bass Strait. The region is known for its turbulent waters and harbours numerous ...

But a warming world is throwing plankton into disarray and threatening the entire marine food chain that is built on them. A ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Increased water salinity in marine diatom Nitzschia disrupts photosynthetic apparatus connections and cell shell formation. Advanced photonic methods revealed ...

Among the myriad creatures that populate our ocean, some stand out as having an outsized impact on the marine environment—shaping and maintaining habitats that themselves sustain countless other forms ...