Meteorologists will factor this year's warm blob into forecasts for winter. The large patch of anomalous water can induce a ...

From plankton to seabirds, it’s bad news for foodwebs in the Pacific and coastal environments: there are some hints that the ...

Marine food webs are highly complex. Until now, researchers have been unable to understand exactly how they are affected by climate change, overfishing and other threats. Scientists at the ...

New research suggests that a tiny phytoplankton that is an essential part of the marine food web may decline sharply as ...

Ocean warming threatens to devastate populations of Prochlorococcus, microscopic organisms that account for 5% of all global ...

What four decades of canned salmon reveal about marine food webs Date: April 5, 2024 Source: University of Washington Summary: Researchers have shown that levels of anisakid worms -- a common marine ...

Paralytic shellfish poisoning, or PSP, is a growing concern for Alaska’s entire marine food web, according to a scientist who presented testing data at Alaska Forum on the Environment on Monday. Bruce ...

For the first time, a significant loss at the base of the marine food web has been detected. The Scottish research vessel Capepod reported the findings in equatorial waters of the Atlantic Ocean. It’s ...

Among the tiniest living things in the ocean are a group of single-celled microbes called Prochlorococcus. They are cyanobacteria, also known as blue-green algae, and they supply nutrients for animals ...

NEWPORT, Ore. – Marine heat waves in the northeast Pacific Ocean create ongoing and complex disruptions of the ocean food web that may benefit some species but threaten the future of many others, a ...

The study adopted an approach with moderate perturbations to seawater chemistry: CO₂-equilibrated Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement. With this approach, the alkalised water that has already absorbed CO 2 ...

The waters off California have grown quieter, and scientists are listening. New research from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) has found a sharp decline in the number of blue whale ...