Melting ice is an emblem of climate change. For sea ice, the Arctic has been grabbing most of the headlines for its truly ...

NEWPORT, Ore. – Marine heat waves in the northeast Pacific Ocean create ongoing and complex disruptions of the ocean food web that may benefit some species but threaten the future of many others, a ...

The ocean is losing its greenness, a new study has found: Global chlorophyll concentration, a proxy for phytoplankton biomass, declined over the past two decades, especially in coastal areas.

Scientists have discovered that deep-sea mining plumes can strip vital nutrition from the ocean’s twilight zone, replacing natural food with nutrient-poor sediment. The resulting “junk food” effect ...

Scientists are gaining new insights into how plankton supports life on Earth — just as climate change is changing everything. Scientists are gaining new insights into how plankton supports life on ...