The sudden disappearance of great white sharks from South Africa’s False Bay is causing major changes in the ocean ecosystem, ...

By reducing the acidity of surrounding waters, seagrass ecosystems help protect animals with shells or external skeletons. In the sunlit surface layer of oceans Like land plants and seagrasses ...

Smithsonian researchers study the ocean and freshwater ecosystems around the world. Using collections, SCUBA, submersibles, and more we ask questions about marine biodiversity, coastal ecosystems, ...

NOAA research shows it would take the average tree more than 1500 years to sequester the amount of carbon dioxide a whale can ...

Imagine a world of darkness, where sunlight never reaches and the pressure is crushing—yet in this abyss, life flourishes in ...

Marine heatwaves can devastate our oceans. Is there a way to prevent them? What are marine heatwaves and why are they so ...

Oceans are large bodies of salt water. They are home to a wide variety of amazing marine animals and plants and provide us with food, and water. With long sandy beaches, they're also fun places to ...

The amount and form of carbon present in different ecosystem pools — such as plants, animals, air ... that has been buried at the bottom of the ocean or a swamp, and converted by heat and ...

Overfishing puts the whole ocean ecosystem out of balance ... and here in the Museum we have collections of fossil animals and plants that date back millions of years, so we can see how they responded ...

Ecology also provides information about the benefits of ecosystems and how we can use Earth ... study microbes living in the soil under your feet or animals and plants in a rain forest or the ocean.

The four billion tons of marine organisms that global fisheries extracted from the ocean between 1960 and 2018 resulted in ...