A vast biomass of phytoplankton is food for key fish species including herring, mackerel and blue whiting – while the area is ...

Iron is a micronutrient indispensable for life, enabling processes such as respiration, photosynthesis, and DNA synthesis.

A research consortium plans to revive geoengineering trials of the controversial iron fertilization technique to pull carbon ...

“Whether we want it or not, water waves are more often three-dimensional than two-dimensional in the real world,” Frederic ...

Scientists are reviving the controversial practice of ocean iron fertilization in a bold attempt to combat climate change.

Britain's seas are rich in wildlife, but many of its species can only be seen with a microscope. These are the plankton—tiny ...

The world's oceans are home to different habitats that capture and store carbon—known as "blue carbon." These include ...

Paepae o He‘eia has spent decades removing mangroves and rebuilding the fishpond wall. The nonprofit is now gearing up to ...

The two most prominent types of plankton in the ocean are zooplankton, which are tiny animal organisms, and phytoplankton, which are plantlike. (Other forms of plankton include bacterial and fungal.

For the first time, we used a computer model of ocean currents to show that krill waste products don’t need to reach great ...

The Arctic is a unique and vital marine environment, home to one of the world's most fragile and diverse ecosystems, crucial ...