How nutrients from Europa's icy shell reach its ocean has been unclear despite several theories.

Europa’s subsurface ocean might be getting fed after all. Scientists found that salty, nutrient-rich surface ice can become ...

Each year, vast blooms of phytoplankton spread across the Southern Ocean, drawing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and ...

How could life exist on Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa? This is what a recent study published in The Planetary Science Journal ...

Life in the ocean runs on light. It fuels photosynthesis, shapes food webs and determines where many marine species can live.

A recent study by geophysicists at Washington State University offers insight into how nutrients may reach the subsurface ...

It turns out, whale pee is nothing to pooh-pooh. The marine giants’ urine serves a vital role in ecosystems by moving tons of nutrients across vast ocean distances, according to new research.

Whales carry tons of nutrients in their pee thousands of miles across the oceans. © Martin van Aswegen, NOAA Permit 21476 In 2010, two researchers in the U.S ...

Georgia Tech researchers have finished investigating how the prehistoric weakening of a major ocean current led to a decline in ocean nutrients and negative impacts on North Atlantic ocean life. The ...

Whale urine helps move nutrients thousands of miles across the ocean in a “conveyer belt,” according to a new study. Photo from Venti Views, UnSplash It turns out, whale pee is nothing to pooh-pooh.