Photo Credit: NASA Oxygen-starved ocean “dead zones,” where fish and animals cannot survive, have been expanding in the open ocean and coastal waters for several decades as a result of human ...

Just 6 kilometers (about 4 miles) of briny water separate the ocean's surface from the depths known as the hadal zone. Yet ...

Researchers have uncovered over 7,500 new microbial species in the hadal zone, highlighting the extreme environmental ...

The deep sea, covering approximately 65% of Earth's surface, has long been considered a biological desert. In this extreme ...

suspended in the ocean’s twilight zone. They are Calanus finmarchicus, a type of zooplankton, animals that drift in the ocean ...

It's the size of Florida. Dead zones are areas of the ocean with low oxygen that can no longer support marine life. It's caused by warming oceans and agricultural runoff. "The ocean is suffocating ...

D. Costa During the first migratory route, the elephant seals seek out the transition zone between two ocean fronts, where there is a lot of food available in the form of fish and squid ...

Malaysia has not yet signed off on the contract to search the seabed for MH370 wreckage, casting uncertainty over whether a search has begun.