Drilling for minerals deep in the ocean could have immense consequences for the tiny animals at the core of the vast marine ...

A new study led by researchers at the University of Hawaii (UH) at Mānoa published in Nature Communications is the first of ...

The impacts have the potential to disrupt commercial fisheries and what lands on dinner plates. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The study examined the effects of mining discharge on zooplankton and the small shrimp and fish that consume the small ...

Scientists caution that unchecked mining could disrupt ocean food webs from the depths to dinner plates worldwide.

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 ...

Polar bears are more than hunters as their leftovers feed many Arctic animals, forming a vital food web threatened by melting ...

Interplanetary dust laced with helium-3 that has settled on the sea floor has provided climate scientists with an urgently ...

An ecosystem is made up of interconnected relationships of organisms that rely on one another for food and energy. This dependence can be described as a food chain or a food web. A food chain is one ...

While the recent inclusion of parasites into food-web studies has highlighted the role of parasites as consumers, there is accumulating evidence that parasites can also serve as prey for predators.