Antarctica's remote and mysterious current has a profound influence on the climate, food systems and Antarctic ecosystems. Can we stop it weakening by 2050?

Through urine, feces, placentas, carcasses and sloughing skin, whales bring thousands of tons of nitrogen and other nutrients from high-latitude areas like Alaska and Antarctica to low-nutrient ...

Whale urine helps move nutrients thousands of miles across the ocean in a “conveyer belt,” according to a ... algae and can provide sustenance for fish and sharks. Its impact, particularly ...

“Certainly I think for coral reef systems, for many fish species, for bird species, they depend on this movement every year.” Ocean currents ... great whale conveyor belt has weakened.