The failure of a vital ocean upwelling has sparked concerns of catastrophic effects for life, according to scientists. Every year, between December and April, northerly winds create a rising current ...

Looking to support or prove long-held hypotheses on a little-known but important ocean activity, researchers from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla led an international ...

A familiar rhythm in the eastern tropical Pacific has gone suddenly quiet. Along the Pacific coast of Panama, a seasonal ...

Every year, upwelling brings cold, nutrient-rich waters from the ocean's depths to the surface, replacing the warmer, nutrient-depleted water. This typically occurs during January to April, when the ...

Something unusual happened off the coast of Panama this year, and at first it did not look dramatic. There was no single ...

Researchers said the mixed bag of results suggested a moderate outlook for salmon, with 2025 indicators ranking roughly in ...

The algae originally come from the Sargasso Sea, located east of Florida. However, since 2011, researchers have repeatedly observed the so-called Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt, a gigantic carpet of ...

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 66, No. 7 (July 2021), pp. 2855-2867 (13 pages) Dinitrogen (N₂) fixation is a major source of bioavailable nitrogen to oligotrophic ocean communities. Yet, we have ...