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The global ocean out of balance

Published: 10 November 2021

Surprising as it sounds, all life forms in the ocean, from small krill to large tuna, seem to obey a simple mathematical law that links an organism’s abundance to its body size. For example,...

Alterations to seabed raise fears for future

Published: 29 October 2018

The ocean floor as we know it is dissolving rapidly as a result of human activity.

The making of Antarctica

Published: 31 January 2017

One of the big mysteries in the scientific world is how the ice sheets of Antarctica formed so rapidly about 34 million years ago, at the boundary between the Eocene and Oligocene epochs....

Microplastic pollution discovered in St. Lawrence River

Published: 23 September 2014

A team of researchers from McGill University and the Quebec government have discovered microplastics (in the form of polyethylene 'microbeads,' less than 2 mm in diameter) widely distributed across...

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