Scientists are gaining new insights into how plankton supports life on Earth — just as climate change is changing everything.

Marine life off the Los Angeles coast may still be impacted by the effects of a long-disused DDT dumping site, a report from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and San Diego ...

After watching the video, students can construct a food web showing the interactions among the organisms on the island and in the ocean. Identify the producers and consumers in an ecosystem.

The more levels a food web has, the less energy reaches the organisms in the highest positions, such as predatory fish. "The phytoplankton of the central Baltic Sea has changed considerably over ...

Scientists' yearlong study on Antarctic microbial communities reveals how climate change alters bacterial and phytoplankton ...

Polis, G.A. & Hurd, S. D. Linking marine and terrestrial food webs: Allochthonous input from the ocean supports high secondary productivity on small islands and coastal land communities.

New research has shown that whales ferry substantial quantities of nutrients for thousands of miles in their urine and other ...

Rhythmic clicks, grunts and roars fill the Año Nuevo Island Reserve in California, home to a large breeding colony of ...