Researchers discovered communities of creatures living in frigid, pitch-black waters under high pressure ...

In Pacific Ocean trenches, scientists found creatures that expand the limits of where we know life can live on Earth.

How much carbon can the ocean absorb, and what happens to it as the planet warms? Sonya Dyhrman, a microbial oceanographer ...

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 ...

New research shows coral reef food webs are more isolated and fragile than expected, with key fish species tied to narrow ...

Stable diverse food webs become more common when interactions are more biologically constrained. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2023; 120 (31) DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2212061120 ...

A scorching marine heatwave from 2014 to 2016 devastated the Pacific coast, shaking ecosystems from plankton to whales and ...

An international study led by the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona ...

Okay, Theo, you can open your eyes now. Thanks, Thought Bubble! In some cases, ecosystems have overlap in their food webs, so different species can fill in for one that’s been lost. But not always.

Nanoplastics entered the Atlantic via rivers, sunlight-driven plastic breakdown, and even through the air with rain or dust.