New research shows that marine heat waves can reshape ocean food webs, which in turn can slow the transport of carbon to the ...

Researchers from Pennsylvania State University, the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission, and the United States Geological ...

Gulf of Alaska ocean heatwaves reshaped plankton and slowed the water’s carbon pump, trapping carbon near the surface instead ...

Every fall, a huge number of dead leaves drop into the river and sink to the bottom, where they are consumed by a large ...

But new research suggests the microscopic bacterium, which forms the foundation of the marine food web and helps regulate the planet’s climate, will decline sharply as seas heat up. A study published ...

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 new study has ...

For decades, scientists believed Prochlorococcus, the smallest and most abundant phytoplankton on Earth, would thrive in a warmer world. But new research suggests the microscopic bacterium, which ...