Pteropods, or sea butterflies, are pelagic molluscs whose delicate aragonitic shells render them especially susceptible to declining carbonate saturation. As the ocean absorbs anthropogenic carbon ...

The Port of L.A. is having a dramatic year. Hereis what its chief sees in its future The CMA CGM Benjamin Franklin, at the time the largest container ship to ever make port in North America, unloads ...

Tiny, delicate marine snails called pteropods are a key part of the marine food web. New research indicates they are dissolving to a greater extent than previously thought because of ocean ...

Shelled pteropods, microscopic free-swimming sea snails, are widely regarded as indicators for ocean acidification because research has shown that their fragile shells are vulnerable to increasing ...