National climate reporter Chase Cain traveled to Antarctica to show how whales and their microscopic neighbors help maintain a critical balance. Scientists from the California Ocean Alliance study ...

Baleen whales shift huge amounts of nutrients, including nitrogen, from high-latitude feeding waters to tropical breeding ...

This is known as the “whale pump”, bringing vital nutrients from their feeding grounds, which are usually teaming with life, and leaving them in the open ocean to give organisms there a chance.