By reducing the acidity of surrounding waters, seagrass ecosystems help protect animals with shells or external skeletons. In the sunlit surface layer of oceans Like land plants and seagrasses ...

As they circumnavigate the ocean, the skippers in the Vendee Globe might be noticing a very different ocean than they have in the past as they directly experience the changes in the conditions at sea ...

Our oceans are vast, open environments teeming with an amazing variety of plant and animal species. Healthy oceans are vital to the planet’s biological web. Unfortunately, the health and ...

What can whale poop teach us about ocean nutrients? This is what a recent study published in Communications Earth & ...

This free five-day lesson plan explores five versatile habitats, providing a daily lesson plan, vocabulary matching activity, ...

An ecosystem is a natural environment in which animals, plants and organisms work to support life. This film explains the difference between biotic and abiotic, terrestrial, freshwater and ocean ...

Overfishing puts the whole ocean ecosystem out of balance. But some animals ... It has happened to Earth many times before, and here in the Museum we have collections of fossil animals and plants that ...

A recent theory proposes that whales weren't just predators in the ocean environment: Nutrients that whales excreted may have provided a key fertilizer to these marine ecosystems. Oceanographers now ...

A new study led by an ecology and evolutionary biologist at UC Santa Cruz finds that temperature changes due to climate ...

Soil carbon storage is a vital ecosystem service ... decaying material from once-living organisms such as plant and animal tissues, fecal material, and products formed from their decomposition.