Each year, vast blooms of phytoplankton spread across the Southern Ocean, drawing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and fueling Antarctica’s marine food web. For decades, scientists have attributed ...

Marine microbes cooperate far more than they compete, reshaping how scientists understand ocean ecosystems and climate ...

A six-year analysis of marine microbes in coastal California waters has overturned long-held assumptions about how the ...

Penguin colonies are declining worldwide; explore their adaptations, threats, and what their struggle tells us about Earth’s ...

For most of modern history, the open ocean has been treated as a place apart. Beyond the 200-nautical-mile limits of national ...

Fin, humpback, and minke whales in the Gulf of St Lawrence are eating more fish and less krill than they did in the past ...

More than a fifth of the global ocean has gradually lost underwater light. But short, intense “marine darkwaves” can be just ...

New satellite tracking research shows that while MPAs help, they are far from enough for a highly mobile species heavily ...

Under the lead of the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW) the influence of parasitic fungi on the ...

A striking phytoplankton bloom has encircled the Chatham Islands creating vivid green and blue swirls visible from space. The ...

The High Seas Treaty has entered into force, establishing the first legally binding global framework to protect the ...