But as this happens, it will change ocean circulation patterns and make ocean food chains less productive. In a recent study, I worked with colleagues from five universities and laboratories to ...

The deep ocean is filled with sea creatures like giant ... Choy also has looked beyond Monterey Bay and higher up the food chain. In earlier research she did in the Pacific, she collected ...

They were on average probably two levels higher on the food chain than today’s great white ... “and there’s just nothing else in the ocean today that has nitrogen isotopes that are that ...

Discovery of novel giant viruses in oceans highlights their role in marine ecosystems and potential impact on public health.

The warming of the waters off the East Coast has come at an invisible, but very steep cost — the loss of microscopic organisms that make up the base of the ocean's food chain. The growing warmth ...

"But the impact of plastic pollution is growing even in parts of the deep ocean never seen by humans ... planet's resources and form the base of the food web." If the seafood we eat is ingesting ...

If zooplankton fail to reproduce, it disrupts the food chain, threatening fish populations and, in turn, seals and other large animals. "If we still have some sea ice, but it's melting more ...

Other animals rarely bothered eating them, the idea went, so they represented a dead end in the ocean’s food web. “Historically, they were just ignored,” says Thomas Doyle, a marine ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. One of the last places you want to be hungry out on the open ocean is the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre. Being home to the Great ...

endangering sea life and threatening to pollute the food chain that millions of people rely on worldwide. The Patch sprawls across an estimated 620,000 square miles of ocean: a blight more than ...

Our previous research has identified sperm whales scavenged by several shark species, and this new research highlights the importance of sea cows within the food chain.” While evidence of ...