The cloudy, sediment-laden meltwater from glaciers is a key source of nutrients for ocean life, but a new study suggests that as climate change causes many glaciers to shrink and retreat their ...

A new study published in Nature Geoscience has revealed that the global ocean's chemical makeup is undergoing a transformation, with key nutrient ratios critical to marine life shifting away from the ...

Scientists exploring ways to use the ocean as a carbon sink are running into a problem that could limit the technology’s long-term effectiveness: the nutrients that marine life needs to pull carbon ...

What can whale poop teach us about ocean nutrients? This is what a recent study published in Communications Earth & Environment hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated a link between a ...

As deep-sea waters warm, scientists expected trouble for the microbes that help keep ocean chemistry in balance. Instead, researchers found that Nitrosopumilus maritimus can adapt to warmer, ...

Plankton may be tiny, but they play an important role in the ocean. As the foundation of marine ecosystems, they support ocean food webs and help regulate Earth's climate by storing carbon. While lab ...

Deep ocean currents around Antarctica that are vital to marine life have slowed by 30% since the 1990s and could soon grind to a complete halt, a new study finds. These currents, known as Antarctic ...

Scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego and the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) have for the first time shown that increased acidification of ...

It turns out, whale pee is nothing to pooh-pooh. The marine giants’ urine serves a vital role in ecosystems by moving tons of nutrients across vast ocean distances, according to new research.

Scientists discovered hidden phosphorus spikes in ancient limestone that may help explain two of Earth’s worst marine mass ...

With careful planning and a little luck, researchers found a surprising upside to hurricanes after a Category 4 storm disrupted their expedition off the coast of Mexico. The team was able to sample ...