Great rivers of whale pee make a remarkable contribution to Earth's cycling of nutrients, a new study reveals.

The study, published in March in the journal Nature Communications, calculates that in oceans across the globe, great whales ...

It turns out, whale pee is nothing to pooh-pooh. The marine giants’ urine serves a vital role in ecosystems by moving tons of nutrients across vast ocean distances, according to ...

A new study reveals that baleen whales, including humpbacks and gray whales, enrich oceans when they take a whizz.

A University of Vermont researcher has released a new study on how whales move tons of nutrients thousands of miles in their urine.

We’ll end things on a delightful note with a new study on the incredible power of whale urine. A paper published last Monday in Nature Communications reports on the “great whale conveyor belt ...

BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - A University of Vermont researcher has released a new study on how whales move tons of nutrients thousands of miles in their urine. Joe Roman, a conservation researcher in ...

Through urine, feces, placentas, carcasses and sloughing skin, whales bring thousands of tons of nitrogen and other nutrients from high-latitude areas like Alaska and Antarctica to low-nutrient ...