The murky world at the bottom of the oceans is now a little clearer, thanks to a new study that tracks the evolution of ...

In the ocean, nutrients often determine how productive an ecosystem can be and, therefore, how much life it can support. Many tropical and subtropical areas where whales give birth lack essential ...

Phytoplankton—microscopic algae that form the base of ocean food webs—have long been viewed as transient players in the ...

They extract organic material, for example from phytoplankton and zooplankton, transform it and make it available again to the ecosystem as nutrients. In this way, they play a major role in the ...

Rising Co2 levels in oceans pose threat to ecosystem, sea life worldwide. Aug. 22, 2008— -- Under the vast, trackless surface of the ocean, scientists have discovered a monster of a problem ...

Recently have I been made aware of the importance fish play in ocean ecosystems, and as a result, all ecosystems. Usually, my encounters with fish are eye-to-eye in the grocery store.

The new species more than doubles the known number of RNA viruses on the planet, painting a clearer picture of the vast abundance and diversity of viruses in ocean ecosystems. Though they may be small ...