Scientists have proposed a controversial method to combat climate change - packing a giant swath of the Pacific Ocean with ...

Iron fertilization may stimulate the plankton, but the fixed carbon has a long way to go to the bottom of the ocean. As the organic carbon and other nutrients sink through the water column ...

The University of Washington conducted a study that offers more support to this claim, arguing that whale excrement holds ...

The blue whale is the largest animal on the planet. It consumes enormous quantities of tiny, shrimp-like animals known as krill to support a body of ...