What can whale poop teach us about ocean nutrients? This is what a recent study published in Communications Earth & Environment hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated a link between a ...
An illustration of the (A) pre-whaling and (B) post-whaling interactions between whales, shrimp-like krill (pink), and photosynthesizing organisms known as phytoplankton (top left of each panel) in ...
A small team of environmental and ocean scientists in Australia, known as Whale X, may have discovered a way to remove carbon from the atmosphere efficiently, Hakai Magazine reported. The key to their ...
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Whales are massive reservoirs of carbon and they are key to the health of our oceans. But there are fewer whales — and less whale poop — in the ocean today than before industrial whaling took off.
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 ...
Harmful algae blooms have been rapidly producing in a place previously too cold to host the toxin: the Arctic. And climate change over the last several decades is to blame, according to new research.