Plastic doesn't biodegrade and so it enters the food chain. The artist wanted to show ... made out of plastic rubbish collected from the ocean. The plastic is connected to underwater sensors ...

Zooplankton seen under a microscope at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay ... and threatening the entire marine food chain that is built on them. A year ago, NASA launched ...

A frightening phenomenon that's making seawater more acidic, spelling disaster for many marine animals, from plankton and coral up the food chain to sea stars ... Sign our petition to help protect ...

A food chain shows how animals obtain their food ... recorded food chain involves over thirty organisms found in the deep ocean. Human activities like deforestation, pollution, and overfishing ...

“Our analysis suggests that the decimation of baleen whale populations from historical whaling could have had larger biogeochemical implications for the Southern Ocean, an area crucially ...

Sustainable fisheries target plentiful species, including those smaller and lower on the food chain, because they can reproduce quickly to sustain their populations. They also mandate ...

If they die, there’ll be fewer big fish—and that could rattle the food chain. marine-plastic-ocean-fish-microplasticThe naturally oily surface slicks in which many ocean fish come of age are ...

Through one of the primary carbon storage mechanisms, the biological carbon pump, phytoplankton (microscopic marine plants at the bottom of the oceanic food chain) take up CO 2 in the surface ocean ...

In our five-day unit plan on the food chain, students can explore activity worksheets, comprehension questions, vocabulary ...

This forms the foundation of food chains in the ocean and is consumed by secondary producers like zooplankton. Furthermore, warming of the marine realm due to climate change has increased ocean ...

Sea Otters: Effects of ocean acidification will be felt up the food chain. Marine mammals like sea otters that rely on shellfish may be in trouble. Studies show that, if left unchecked, within our ...