The barnacle, a key thread in the marine food web, was thought to be missing along rocky coasts dominated by upwelling. Now a research team has found the opposite to be true: Barnacle populations ...

Sardines (Sardinops spp.) occupy temperate upwelling zones in the coastal regions of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, including locations in Japan, California, Chile, Australia, and South Africa. East ...

For the first time in decades, the Gulf of Panama's seasonal upwelling — an otherwise predictable phenomenon — has collapsed, Geographical reported. Every year, upwelling brings cold, nutrient-rich ...

"Killer cold events" are becoming more frequent and destroying marine wildlife, a new study has found. The research published in Nature Climate Change noted that although climate change is causing an ...

Western Boundary Currents (WBCs) play a critical role in regulating the global climate, carrying large amounts of heat north from tropical waters. While there have been many studies conducted on the ...

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 62, No. 3 (2017), pp. 973-988 (16 pages) We examined the dynamics and production of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) on a large continental shelf in the northern South ...

(CN) — The rising intensity and frequency of marine heat waves due to climate change is bleaching coral reefs, killing whole populations of fish, and forcing remaining populations out of their natural ...

JELLYFISH may not be most people’s idea of a tasty snack, but if you are a loggerhead turtle, they are top of the menu. Though jellyfish can swim, they are not exactly the greyhounds of the ocean, so ...

Figure 1: Contemporary evidence implies that the significant euxinia observed in the ancient ocean involved a disturbance in Redfield N:P stoichiometry. Figure 3: The impact of the nitrogen-fixation ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — There's been a rich debate in marine ecological circles about what happens to a key food source along rocky coastlines dominated by upwelling. The literature is ...