As they circumnavigate the ocean, the skippers in the Vendee Globe might be noticing a very different ocean than they have in ...

Scientists track Antarctic krill via satellite to monitor ocean health amid climate change and fishing threats.

Ecosystem engineers are plants or animals that create, modify or maintain habitats. As Joshua Larsen, an associate professor at the University of Birmingham, explains, beavers are a perfect example of ...

Just as the human body serves as a habitat for bacteria and other microbes, diverse, tiny organisms known as protists host ...

The team analyzed whale poop for iron, known to be especially limited in the Southern Ocean, as well as copper.

Invasive plants are harmful, non-native species that enter a foreign ecosystem and disrupt it. Often they crowd out native plants or prove dangerous to the local animal life. This can have widespread ...

The Rise of Renewable Energy In recent years, renewable energy has become a hot topic, capturing the attention of governments ...

Over the past 60 years, marine biologists at UC Santa Cruz have monitored the behavior of northern elephant seals that ...

In new research published this week, a team led by Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) scientists reveals that symbiotic bacteria often accompany single-celled protists in the ocean’s upper layer. Some ...