The concept of thermohaline circulation might sound like a complex term from a science textbook, but it plays a crucial role ...

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 ...

“We call it the ‘great whale conveyor belt,’” Joe Roman ... For example, humpbacks in the North Pacific migrate annually from the Gulf of Alaska to the coast of Hawaii.

The study focused on a handful of baleen species — namely, gray whales, humpback whales and right whales — which display “traditional migratory patterns,” moving from colder waters in the summer to ...