The fishery is regulated but experts say it is wrecking the food chain. Gordon Peake joined a Sea Shepherd mission to observe the giant ships compete for catch ...
Huge industrial trawlers are competing for krill – the main food source for whales – in the Southern Ocean, removing vital nutrients from the ecosystem ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Diplomatic tensions rose at one of the world's top marine conservation meetings when Norway proposed nearly doubling the amount of ...
Blue whales are the largest mammals in the world, and they spend much of their lives roaming the deep ocean, where they feed ...
A new study has found that Antarctic krill are resilient to the increasing acidification of the ocean as it absorbs more C02 from the atmosphere due to anthropogenic carbon emissions. Krill are one of ...
Biologists looked into the abyss and the abyss looked back, with lots of little compound krill eyes. The shrimplike Antarctic krill, a major player in polar ecosystems, is supposedly a creature of the ...
A new study based on careful analysis of 90 years of scientific catch data from the South Atlantic Ocean shows that the geographic distribution of Antarctic krill has contracted nearly 300 miles ...
Israeli researchers have demonstrated that krill and jellyfish, as tiny as they may be, play a big role in ocean mixing. Professors Alexander Leshansky and Leonid Pismen of the Faculty of Chemical ...