The Mediterranean Basin is facing an increasing frequency and intensity of wildfires driven by climate change, raising concern about their off-site impacts on marine ecosystems. This study provides fo...
Mangrove ecosystems are highly efficient natural carbon sinks, yet quantifying soil organic carbon density (SOCD) across stand ages is critical for evaluating restoration benefits. This study integrat...
Larval migration plays an essential role in determining the distribution and evolution of invertebrate animals endemic to hydrothermal vents-disjunct and ephemeral habitats in the deep sea. However, t...
Microplastic pollution in the Arctic Ocean poses potential risks to local ecosystems, particularly as global warming accelerates sea ice loss. Although high microplastic abundances in sea ice have bee...
In 2013, a mass mortality event resulted in the deaths of approximately three million short-tailed shearwaters (Ardenna tenuirostris) along the east coast of Australia. As pelagic apex predators withi...
Microplastics (MPs) have emerged as pervasive contaminants in marine ecosystems; however, their vertical distribution within the Arabian Sea water column remains poorly understood. This study investig...
Ocean monitoring is essential for understanding climate change and marine ecosystem dynamics, yet achieving comprehensive global coverage remains a challenge in oceanography. Current technologies face...
Coral reef islands face escalating degradation due to extreme substrate infertility (coral sand) and waste management challenges in isolated marine environments. High-oil food waste composting offers ...
For Small Island Developing States, including those in the Caribbean, the deep sea remains a challenging ecosystem to study as it requires expensive technology and specialised expertise. The deep-sea ...
Octocorals are vital components of tropical, temperate, and cold-water benthic marine ecosystems. Their associated microbiomes, comprising microeukaryotes, prokaryotes, and viruses, are increasingly r...
The functioning of high-diversity ecosystems, such as coral reefs, is intrinsically tied to the integrity and efficiency of the trophic pathways within these systems. Coral reef productivity depends, ...
Mangrove ecosystems are our most carbon-rich forests. They play a vital role in regulating carbon fluxes to the ocean (outwelling). These ecosystems are increasingly threatened by degradation. Here we...
Deep-sea hydrothermal vents emit geothermal light, yet its ecological role in shaping microbial adaptation remains largely unexplored. To investigate this, we designed a custom cultivation system that...
Like other rorqual whale species, blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus) evolved to specialize in consuming large numbers of small-bodied prey through engulfment filter feeding.1,2 Blue whales in the eas...
Passive acoustic monitoring is a non-invasive tool widely used to assess marine biodiversity and ecosystem dynamics. This study characterizes the soundscape of a sandy-bottom habitat in a shallow coas...
The adoption of exhaust gas cleaning systems (scrubbers) in maritime transport generates a complex metal-laden washwater that may pose a noteworthy threat to marine ecosystems. This study assessed the...
Marine organisms have proven to be excellent sources of bioactive natural products with potential therapeutic applications. To date, seventeen marine-derived molecules are on the market for the treatm...
This study provides the first basin-scale assessment of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) in zooplankton collected from the central-southern Mediterranean Sea....
In May 2025, the "Conservation in a Microbial World" conference was hosted at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography to address the lack of microbial representation in international conser...
Human activities are exerting increasing pressure on the ocean, threatening marine biodiversity and the many benefits it provides to people. Allocating adequate space to enable the sustainable and equ...
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