Levels of lead and other heavy metals spiked in L.A.’s coastal waters after the January fires, raising serious concerns for ...

Heal the Bay, an environmentally focused nonprofit organization, tested 116 known pollutants and found many harmful heavy ...

A study shows how the loss of Great white sharks from False Bay is disrupting the marine food web and threatening ocean ...

is one of the most important marine ecosystems on Earth. The colder waters nurture massive blooms of phytoplankton, microscopic photosynthetic organisms that form the starting point of the food ...

How is organic matter transported from productive coastal areas to the open ocean? Researchers have now shown that eddies play a crucial role in this process. The swirling currents contain large ...

Zooplankton are one of the most diverse and abundant groups of organisms on Earth and they play an essential role in the marine food chain. Unable to photosynthesise, as phytoplankton do ...

But a warming world is throwing plankton into disarray and threatening the entire marine food chain that is built on them. A year ago, NASA launched a satellite that provided the most detailed ...

HUMANS live in a plankton world. These minuscule organisms blanket the oceans, covering nearly three-quarters of the planet, ...