New research suggests that a tiny phytoplankton that is an essential part of the marine food web may decline sharply as ...

The ocean’s tiniest powerhouse may burn out in a hotter world, threatening life far beyond the microbes themselves.

Tiny ocean microbes like Prochlorococcus fuel marine life, but new research shows rising temperatures could threaten their ...

The seawater in 24 plastic Nalgene bottles sloshed gently in the wet lab on the Bell M. Shimada, one of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s ocean research vessels. Each bottle ...

Tiny ocean microbes called Prochlorococcus, once thought to be climate survivors, may struggle as seas warm. These ...

Ocean warming threatens to devastate populations of Prochlorococcus, microscopic organisms that account for 5% of all global ...

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 ...

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 State ...

The researchers found that the gradual increase in Antarctic sea-ice between 1997 and 2016 was accompanied by a change in the ...

Researchers have more insight into salps -- a strange sea creature found in oceans around the world -- and what their presence means for the health of a marine ecosystem. Florida State University ...

The ocean is heating up—in some places, faster than scientists once thought possible. For the fish, crustaceans and plankton that underpin life in the sea, this means habitats will shift, food ...