A new study reveals that baleen whales, including humpbacks and gray whales, enrich oceans when they take a whizz.

is one of the most important marine ecosystems on Earth. The colder waters nurture massive blooms of phytoplankton, ...

In recent years, marine ranching has gained momentum along China's coast. In 2024, the city of Shanwei, in the southern ...

A food chain shows how animals obtain their food ... recorded food chain involves over thirty organisms found in the deep ocean. Human activities like deforestation, pollution, and overfishing ...

If they die, there’ll be fewer big fish—and that could rattle the food chain. marine-plastic-ocean-fish-microplasticThe naturally oily surface slicks in which many ocean fish come of age are ...

Did you know that whales help keep the ocean healthy by spreading nutrients far and wide? These massive creatures don’t just ...

Once the plastic is in the ocean, it decomposes very slowly, breaking into tiny pieces known as microplastics, which can enter the marine food chain and become incredibly damaging to sea life. The ...

But a warming world is throwing plankton into disarray and threatening the entire marine food chain that is built on them. A year ago, NASA launched a satellite that provided the most detailed ...

Zooplankton are one of the most diverse and abundant groups of organisms on Earth and they play an essential role in the marine food chain. Unable to photosynthesise, as phytoplankton do ...

Even a 10 percent decrease in the population of pteropods could mean a 20 percent drop in an adult salmon’s body weight. Sea Otters: Effects of ocean acidification will be felt up the food chain.

But how has fishing changed and does this affect the food chain? The decrease of ocean life is being caused by overfishing. This means that we are taking too many fish, lobsters and other marine ...