One day my marine biology professor had us all read a paper proposing the idea of fertilizing the ocean using iron to create phytoplankton blooms to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to combat ...

As research over the past several decades has shown, whales play a critical role in bolstering ocean ecosystems. Many whale ...

Plankton are also adapted to their environments, and are very sensitive to changes in their conditions, such as differences ...

The image of the Arctic typically doesn't involve much green, so when researchers found green patches beneath the ice, they ...

A study on how climate change affects our oceans reveals that tiny changes in the food chain can have massive impacts on fish ...

While the majestic mammals may be far fewer than they once were, their poop plays a crucial role in maintaining marine ...

The latest United Nations Climate Change conference has convened in Azerbaijan, with the hope of salvaging an essential ...

Three Virginia Tech Center for Ecosystem Forecasting researchers were among 23 global experts to call for scaling up current ...

Late summer and early fall brought a burst of harmful algal blooms (HABs) for days on end throughout Owasco Lake and our ...

The Virginia Department of Health has lifted the harmful algae bloom advisory for Lake Anna due to the end of the ...

Freshwater jellyfish are growing in abundance in Canadian lakes and rivers. The reasons are complex but climate change is the ...