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Marine whelks exposed to acidified water suffer cell damage and costly energy trade-offs. Even when returned to clean water, their bodies remain altered rather than fully healed.
A five-year study reveals how rare, uncultivated Hikarchaeia microbes divide the ocean by depth and geography, peaking regularly with the seasons.
Seven years after an extreme Bering Sea marine heatwave wiped out snow crab stocks, researchers recorded an unprecedented surge in rare snow-Tanner hybrid crabs.
A 20-year study shows little auks cope with warming seas by changing their habits, but storms and toxic mercury place hard limits on their resilience.
A major reassessment reveals that 44% of surveyed reef-building coral species are threatened with extinction, largely due to rising ocean heat.
A global satellite study found that over half of newly created marine protected areas saw industrial fishing increase rather than drop. Significant declines happened almost solely in fully protected reserves where all fishing is banned.
A lab study shows that the size and polymer of plastic fragments change how quickly blue mussels ingest and clear them. Larger polystyrene shards linger for days, sparking cellular stress, shifting digestive enzymes, and wiping out gut bacterial diversity.
Planting native trees along rivers in oil palm plantations creates cooler, more stable microclimates that shield wildlife from heat. These restored strips could buffer animals against future climate extremes through 2085.
Marine bacteria swim toward dense trails of fucoidan, a tough sugar shed by brown seaweeds. Even though they cannot digest this sugar for food, it acts as a guide to seaweed surfaces.
Researchers built an artificial intelligence model guided by geophysical rules that predicts cyclone tracks and wind strengths more accurately than standard machine learning baselines.