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

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 ...

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

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 ...

On Thursday, the Aquarium of the Pacific released its first Marine Species Report Card, detailing the population trends of 30 ...

Urban river snorkeling is a new trend that allows you to discover ecosystems hiding in plain sight within city landscapes.

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

Strong circumpolar currents bring deep ocean water up to the surface. Huge blooms of plant-like organisms ... thinking at the ecosystem scale," Monreal said. "When I say animals, I really mean ...

An ecosystem is a complex and interactive community of living plants, animals, and a non-living environment. Native plants are specialized to attract insects, birds, and other animals so that ...

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

Habitats are diverse environments where plants and animals live, providing natural resources that living things need to ...