A study published in Nature Climate Change by an international team of scientists from the IBS Center for Climate Physics ...

As the Arctic Ocean loses its sea ice due to climate change, sunlight penetrates deeper into the water and encourages the ...

A team of scientists has made a 'big' discovery about one of the pillars of the global ecosystem using a world-wide network ...

The ocean is doing its best to soak up excess heat, but once humanity (hopefully) achieves a net-negative carbon economy, the ...

A new review reveals how tiny shell-building plankton quietly drive carbon cycling and influence global climate change.

This week at the Oceanarium, I was stopped short while explaining that the eggs from a crab hatch into larval stages and become plankton. The question that stopped me was, “What is plankton?” Now, my ...

Scientists caution that unchecked mining could disrupt ocean food webs from the depths to dinner plates worldwide.

Humanity has a long track record of making big changes with little forethought. From fossil fuels to AI, plastics to pesticides, we love innovating away our problems, only to find we’ve created ...

They drift aimlessly at sea, soaking up sunlight from the sky and nutrients from the deep. Often invisible to the naked eye, these tiny invertebrates form the hidden backbone of ocean ecosystems.

Phytoplankton are key players in the ocean carbon cycle. Comprised of a variety of microscopic photosynthesizing bacteria, algae, and other single-cell organisms, phytoplankton form the base of marine ...

Eukaryotic phytoplankton drive a decrease in primary production under ocean acidification. Credit: Dalin Shi Princeton University and Xiamen University researchers report that in tropical and ...

The rate at which phytoplankton are disappearing as oceans warm has been vastly overestimated by a glitch in models. That’s good news given that phytoplankton support almost all life in the oceans and ...