In past periods of warmer ocean temperatures, it has been common for oxygen levels in the water to drop. Warm water holds less oxygen, and this combined with increased pollution could see the size of ...

Zooplankton seen under a microscope at the Bigelow Laboratory ... all while getting soaked in frigid ocean water and battling seasickness as the boat bounced up and down. Dr. Fields, right ...

Seafarers have known about the Gulf Stream—the Atlantic Ocean's western boundary current—for more than 500 years. By the volume of water it moves, the Gulf Stream is the largest of the western ...

Image caption, This is one type of plankton viewed through a microscope ... They often make the ocean around our coastline appear murky. Image caption, This murky looking water contains loads ...