While most commercial fishing occurs at sea, the seafood on our plates does not often start in the big blue ocean - it starts where the rivers meet the sea. The special places where freshwater rivers ...

This past June, researchers congregated at the Smithsonian Marine Station to catalogue the vast diversity of tiny animals living in Florida’s Indian River Lagoon Jack Tamisiea Marine ecologist Holly ...

The waters of the St. Lawrence Estuary are running out of breath. The lack of oxygen in deep waters is affecting the organisms that live on the bottom of the estuary. How do deep ecosystems react to ...

Estuaries are thriving but delicate ecosystems for a rich assortment of plants and animals Estuaries are thriving but delicate ecosystems for a rich assortment of plants and animals, providing ...

The critically endangered estuarine pipefish is known to inhabit only two estuaries on the eastern coast of South Africa. Recent studies are uncovering how the health of its estuarine habitat rests on ...

Oceanographer uncovers the relationship between size and productivity in one of the world's most complex ecosystems. They exist all over the world, are among the most productive ecosystems on Earth ...