Deep-sea microbes are adapting to global warming by reducing their use of iron and altering global marine chemistry.

When most people think about corals, they imagine a tropical reef with crystal blue water, teeming with colorful fish. But, ...

For spiders that fling their webs at prey, a sturdy net is essential. A net-casting spider in search of a meal dangles upside down, holding a web in its legs before launching it at an unsuspecting ...

A school of fish swims alongside sharks. Predator–prey relationships are shifting as declines in large top predators and increases in smaller, more generalist species are reshaping fish food webs ...

Some ancient fish in the Caribbean may have lost their lunch. Modern food chains on coral reefs off the coasts of the Dominican Republic and Panama are roughly 60 to 70 percent shorter than they were ...

Mr. Nangle is a cartoonist and illustrator. A “food web” diagram typically lays out nature’s chain of consumption: Phytoplankton gets eaten by krill, which in turn gets gobbled up by squid, which then ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — When University at Buffalo chemists analyzed samples of water, fish, and bird eggs, they weren’t surprised to find plenty of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). After all, ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...