Scientists found invisible plastic pollution across the North Atlantic Ocean. These particles harm both wildlife and humans.

If the trend continues, marine food webs could be affected, with potential repercussions for global fisheries.

Justice & Health At UN Ocean Conference, Nations and Funders Seek to Create and Expand Large-Scale Marine Protected Areas The global goal of protecting 30 percent of the world’s ocean by 2030 ...

Such conditions may have severe implications for marine food webs. They could trigger fundamental changes in the entire ecosystem, and even disrupt the ocean’s role in regulating climate.

This category of creatures include some of the ocean’s most recognizable denizens: sharks, whales, turtles, seals, and seabirds. They are typically top predators with critical roles in marine food ...

Giant viruses play a role in the survival of single-celled marine organisms called protists. These include algae, amoeba, and flagellates, that form the base of ocean food webs. And since these ...

Extreme Monsoon Changes Threaten the Bay of Bengal's Role as a Critical Food Source Scientists are studying ancient ocean sediments to predict future effects of monsoons on marine life in the Bay of ...

Mesoscale ocean eddies transport nutrients and energy-rich lipids, helping sustain marine ecosystems far from coasts.

Rising Temperatures Are Scrambling the Base of the Ocean Food Web Scientists are gaining new insights into how plankton supports life on Earth — just as climate change is changing everything.

Phytoplankton form the foundation of the marine food chain, and climate change is shaking that foundation. Phytoplankton in the open ocean appear to be dwindling. In the early 2000s, scientists ...

Location: Global. Methods: We studied 105 marine food webs. By Kolmogorov–Smirnov test, and kernel density estimation, we determined the degree distribution of each food web, described its ...

How do marine food webs respond to increasing alkalinity? Date: December 7, 2024 Source: Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR) Summary: To mitigate climate change, human-made carbon ...