By the late 1990s, scientists realized that virus activity was likely shaping how carbon and nutrients cycled through ocean ...

Virus. The word evokes images of illness and fears of outbreaks. Yet, in the oceans, not all viruses are bad news. Some play a helpful, even critical, role in sustaining marine life. In a new study, ...

Each year, vast blooms of phytoplankton spread across the Southern Ocean, drawing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and ...

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

Life in the ocean runs on light. It fuels photosynthesis, shapes food webs and determines where many marine species can live.

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

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

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

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

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

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

In a first, the Ministry of Earth Sciences has sanctioned a grant of Rs 71.74 lakh for Mumbai University’s Centre for ...