Learn why sardines vanished, leaving tens of thousands of African penguins starving during their annual moult along South Africa’s coast.

Researchers from the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have uncovered how soil food webs promote the transformation and storage of photosynthetic carbon in ...

The ocean is losing its greenness, a new study has found: Global chlorophyll concentration, a proxy for phytoplankton biomass, declined over the past two decades, especially in coastal areas.

Deep-Sea Mining Risks Disrupting the Marine Food Web, Study Warns Drilling for minerals deep in the ocean could have immense consequences for the tiny animals at the core of the vast marine food web — ...

The Arctic may appear still and desolate, yet it supports a continuous web of life. Every organism depends on others through complex ecological interactions that often go unnoticed. Among them, the ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. What happens to us after we die is as much a question for anthropology and ecology as it is for theology. Death and ...

Microbes near the surface of the Southern Ocean sustain the polar food chain — impacting the nutrient flow from the surface to the depths where other microbial communities thrive in the dark. National ...

New research shows that marine heat waves can reshape ocean food webs, which in turn can slow the transport of carbon to the deep sea and hamper the ocean's ability to buffer against climate change.

One-third of all food in America is wasted leads to billions of dollars lost each year, according to a new Gallup survey on the state of food waste in America. Until now, researchers have known little ...

SEATTLE (AP) — For decades, scientists believed Prochlorococcus, the smallest and most abundant phytoplankton on Earth, would thrive in a warmer world. But new research suggests the microscopic ...

For decades, scientists believed Prochlorococcus, the smallest and most abundant phytoplankton on Earth, would thrive in a warmer world. But new research suggests the microscopic bacterium, which ...