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 ...

The University of Washington conducted a study that offers more support to this claim, arguing that whale excrement holds ...

Climate change is depleting vital ocean nutrients, disrupting marine ecosystems, and threatening food webs, a new study finds.

Seamounts attract sharks and marine predators, with 41 times more sharks than open waters. These mountains act as social hubs ...

A more acidic ocean will cause some types to grow slower, some to grow faster, and the balance among them to change, which could have big ripple effects for the higher levels of the food web.

DNA sequencing is making it possible for scientists to identify thousands of species of zooplankton – drifting animals that are key links in ocean food webs. Biologists are finding new evidence ...