Scientists track Antarctic krill via satellite to monitor ocean health amid climate change and fishing threats.

It will use changes in the degree of red coloration detected by satellites to track its quarry: a tiny shrimp smaller than ...

Dr Cait McCarry catching krill in a net in Antarctica in order to study the animals "Antarctic krill are the superheroes of ...

UK scientists plan to monitor krill from space as species threatened by warming - The researchers hope to analyse where ...

The team analyzed whale poop for iron, known to be especially limited in the Southern Ocean, as well as copper.

A recent theory proposes that whales weren’t just predators in the ocean environment: Nutrients that whales excreted may have ...

What can whale poop teach us about ocean nutrients? This is what a recent study published in Communications Earth & ...

A team of scientists have been using the colour of seawater to help count tiny Antarctic sea creatures from miles above. They ...

Rod Downie, chief polar adviser at WWF-UK, said: “Antarctic krill are the superheroes of the Southern Ocean. These tiny, unsung heroes are the beating heart of the Southern Ocean, sustaining ...

Researchers found that whale feces contain iron and non-toxic copper, essential nutrients for ocean ecosystems. The study ...

shrimp-like krill (pink), and photosynthesizing organisms known as phytoplankton (top left of each panel) in the Southern Ocean. The decimation of whales in this ecosystem and coincident drop in ...