If they die, there’ll be fewer big fish—and that could rattle the food chain. marine-plastic-ocean-fish-microplasticThe naturally oily surface slicks in which many ocean fish come of age are ...

The Saya de Malha Bank is one of the world’s largest seagrass fields and the planet’s most important carbon sinks. It faces ...

This means that fish and other aquatic critters that live in these environments are, for better or worse, exposed to our meds. Basically fish are on drugs — our drugs. What, exactly, does that mean ...

In fact, it represented the biggest population of species of ocean-migrating fish, known as anadromous ... to bring people ...

This fish is found in the extreme depths of the ocean, and is also known as the man-gobbler This species is about the size of a football and covered in spines. It also has branches that extend from ...

We eat fish from the ocean, we breathe the oxygen it gives off ... They also thrive in warmer waters and seas polluted by fertilisers from farming. In the oceans of the future, jellyfish could be one ...

The open ocean’s twilight zone, a vast deep ecosystem rich in fish biomass, is poorly understood because it is expensive and challenging for humans to reach its depths 200–1000 meters (660 ...

Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences that make up about 40 percent of the world's ocean surfaces. At current rates plastic is expected to outweigh all the fish in the ...

A rising tide of plastic waste is choking our oceans, threatening fragile ecosystems and killing sea life. While plastic has revolutionised our way of life since it was invented in the 1950s, the ...

In recent times though, the Southern or Antarctic Ocean has been recognised ... millions of people worldwide. Dead fish off the coast of Brazil in a heavily polluted bay in 2015 Despite being ...