This week’s beachcombing survey brought in a fresh batch of Sargassum washed ashore — and with it, some of the ocean’s most ...

The annual forecast for the "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico, which President Donald Trump has renamed the Gulf of America, ...

President Donald Trump is pushing to raise catch limits while cutting fisheries staff at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

The annual forecast for the “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico, which president Trump has renamed the Gulf of America, ...

New research has revealed that the decline of kelp forests in the Gulf of Maine is reshaping marine food webs and energy ...

Dead zones appear annually, May through September, in the Gulf of Mexico ... so why do dead zones occur? Because of food web dynamics and decomposition. Zooplankton, small animals that spend ...

While kelp forests persist along northern Maine's rocky coast, kelp abundance has declined by as much as 80% on the southern ...

Dead zones are not unique to the Gulf of the Mexico, though the gulf's is estimated to be the world's second largest. In the world's largest dead zone, in the Baltic Sea, low oxygen devastated ...

Focuses on the biogeochemical cycling of trace metals in marine systems. CalCOFI is a long-term, interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral ecosystem research program off the coast of California that ...