Scientists are gaining new insights into how plankton supports life on Earth — just as climate change is changing everything.

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 ...

is one of the most important marine ecosystems on Earth. The colder waters nurture massive blooms of phytoplankton, microscopic photosynthetic organisms that form the starting point of the food ...

[Photo by Zhang Yuyang/For chinadaily.com.cn] Earlier this year, Chongqing became part of the global aquatic food supply chain after completing its first re-export trade of processed marine products.

Once the plastic is in the ocean, it decomposes very slowly, breaking into tiny pieces known as microplastics, which can enter the marine food chain and become incredibly damaging to sea life. The ...

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 ...

But how does our plastic waste end up littering the ocean? Even if you live hundreds ... and this can pass the problem back up the food chain and into the food we eat. In Wales people now pay ...

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 ...

Zooplankton are one of the most diverse and abundant groups of organisms on Earth and they play an essential role in the marine food chain. Unable to photosynthesise, as phytoplankton do ...