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 ...

Ocean currents and upwellings also transport ... have declined precipitously over the last few centuries, the great whale conveyor belt has weakened. The nutrient transport numbers — by the ...

Researchers have taken a close look at the global ocean's great "conveyor belt," and they don't like what they've found. The Antarctic Circumpolar Current, a clockwise current that helps to ...

Dailymotion The Thermohaline Circulation - The Great Ocean Conveyor Belt Posted: March 8, 2025 | Last updated: March 8, 2025 The oceans are mostly composed of warm salty water near the surface ...

When whales migrate from their cold feeding grounds to warmer breeding waters, they carry tons of nutrients in their urine.

“We call it the ‘great whale conveyor belt,’” Joe Roman ... It’s super-cool, and changes how we think about ecosystems in the ocean.” This research also highlights the potential ...

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 ...