"It offers a profoundly adverse, but highly plausible, endgame for Antarctic krill that has serious implications for both the Southern Ocean food web and sustainable management of fisheries ...

nourishing the entire food web. It is a platform upon which penguins breed, seals rest, and around which whales feed. The international bodies that manage Antarctica and the Southern Ocean under ...

An Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba), about 5 centimeters long. Credit: Uwe Kils on Wikimedia Commons In the Southern Ocean, krill serve as an important link in the food web, connecting ...

Antarctica's rapidly receding sea ice could have a negative impact on the food supply of seabirds that breed hundreds of miles away from the continent. Most of the world's albatrosses, and their ...