Climate change is altering ocean food at its source, reducing protein in phytoplankton and impacting marine life across the ...

Microplastics, plastic particles smaller than 5 millimeters, can be found in land, air, and water, and have infiltrated our food chain, resulting in far-reaching health consequences for humans and ...

Old canned salmon turned out to be a time capsule of ocean health. Researchers found that rising levels of tiny parasitic ...

NEWPORT, Ore. – 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 ...

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

Scientists have discovered that deep-sea mining plumes can strip vital nutrition from the ocean’s twilight zone, replacing natural food with nutrient-poor sediment. The resulting “junk food” effect ...

Industrial fishing has become so routine that it is easy to forget how violent it is to the sea itself. One technique in particular, bottom trawling, has quietly turned vast stretches of ocean into ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — Hawaiʻi’s sharks are a bit of both legend and mystery. From Kāmohoaliʻi, the Hawaiian god with a shark’s head, to the modern-day research that uncovers their crucial role in ocean ...

The main cause is the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, which are mostly produced by deforestation, industrial operations, and the combustion of fossil fuels.