Zooplankton seen under a microscope at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay ... is throwing plankton ...

New research has shown that whales ferry substantial quantities of nutrients for thousands of miles in their urine and other ...

Tourists to Antarctica are fueling research on some of the tiniest, most influential organisms on Earth: phytoplankton. These ...

Bacteria and other single-celled microorganisms in the seas around Antarctica are strongly influenced by water temperature ...

Melting Antarctic ice sheets are weakening the ACC, a vital ocean current that regulates global climate and ocean circulation ...

Scientists' yearlong study on Antarctic microbial communities reveals how climate change alters bacterial and phytoplankton ...

"If this current 'engine' breaks down, there could be severe consequences, including more climate variability, with greater ...

Scientists warn that the Antarctic Circumpolar Current is slowing down due to climate change. This could lead to sea level ...

Researchers say slowdown of ACC may allow invasive species to reach Antarctica, threatening fragile food webs and species ...

Melting ice sheets are slowing the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), the world's strongest ocean current, researchers have ...

Canned salmon, long thought to be just a pantry staple, has unexpectedly become a valuable archive of Alaskan marine ecology.