A single Antarctic krill is about the size of your pinky finger. But with an estimated population of more than 700 trillion in the Southern Ocean, the tiny crustacean’s collective impact across ...

Antarctic krill sequester similar amounts of carbon to key coastal blue carbon habitats. Nature Communications , 2024; 15 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-52135-6 Cite This Page : ...

Antarctic krill swimming between the Southern Ocean's surface and seafloor depths, make a "surprisingly small" contribution to the carbon export "highway" compared to their fast-sinking feces, ...

Antarctic krill trap vast amounts of carbon from the atmosphere in the ocean floor through their sinking fecal pellets, a new study reports. The annual amount is similar to that stored by “blue ...

Antarctic krill do not only react to external environmental influences such as light or food. They also use their internal clock to adapt to the extreme conditions of the polar environment.

Kim Bernard, at left, is an expert on Antarctic krill, a species crucial to the health of the continent’s food chain. For a research expedition on the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s R.V. Falkor ...

Antarctic krill is rich in omega-3 fatty acids and serves as the only food source for larger whale species like blues or fins, filtering easily through their bristly mouths and forming an ...

However, four humpback whales were entangled in one of Aker BioMarine’s nets in 2021 and 2022.A 2022 study did find that krill fishing in the Antarctic has a low bycatch rate. Avoiding further ...

Title image: An adult blue whale. (Credit: NOAA) Antarctic krill fishing could threaten the recovery of whale species that were nearly wiped out by industrial whaling, according to a study led by CU ...

A single Antarctic krill is about the size of your pinky finger. But with an estimated population of more than 700 trillion in the Southern Ocean, the tiny crustacean’s collective impact across ...

The new study shows that Antarctic krill lock at least 20 million tonnes of carbon into the deep ocean annually, which equates to $4-46 billion of storage value, depending on the price of carbon.