Phytoplankton form the foundation of the marine food chain, and climate change is shaking that foundation. And while marine ...

Mercury is present in seawater in small quantities. It gets into the marine food chain starting at the very bottom, absorbed by microscopic algae. Larger, carnivorous species like sharks and ...

The University of Washington conducted a study that offers more support to this claim, arguing that whale excrement holds vital nutrients, such as copper and iron, critical to marine life.

But there are still significant gaps in our understanding of how they might affect marine ecosystems ... bioaccumulation potential across the food chain, and the mechanisms through which they ...