New international research led by Professors Willy Baeyens and Yue Gao of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), published in ...

Researchers have measured toxins in scat samples from 205 bowhead whales from the Beaufort Sea, collected over 19 years, and ...

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Coral bleaching isn’t just an ocean crisis. Here’s how the global event endangers food security, local jobs—and the land ...

Ocean heat is changing marine food webs—with far-reaching consequences for NZ fisheries and sea life. Story by Anne Rolton Vignier, Kirsty Smith • 1mo.

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.

The ocean naturally absorbs a quarter to a third of man-made CO2 emissions, but this process also leads to the acidification of seawater. By increasing the alkalinity of seawater through the ...

Mesoscale eddies, oceanic swirling currents with typical horizontal scales of 10-100 kilometres in diameter, are ubiquitous features of the global ocean and play a vital role in marine ecosystems.

Most foraminiferan species reside on the seafloor, but paleontologists are particularly interested in planktonic species, ...

For thousands of years, writers have come up with increasingly creative ways to describe the “wine-dark sea.” But a new study suggests that modern poets may be faced with a slightly different palette.

Study examines how sharks are being impacted by a changing ecosystem 02:00. In the ocean food chain, large sharks generally only have to worry about keeping orcas at bay — but a new study ...