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 ...

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, Beltran.

Deep-sea fish thrive in extreme pressure, darkness, and pollution, revealing new survival mechanisms and threats.

Despite growing interest in deep-sea mining, much of the deep ocean, particularly the midwater zone, remains poorly understood. A 2023 study in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone found that 88% to 92% of ...

Beneath the Pacific Ocean southeast of Hawaii, a hidden treasure trove of polymetallic nodules can be found scattered across ...

Scientists use satellite data to find ocean zones where trash naturally gathers for easier, faster, and cleaner clean-up.

UD doctoral student Tianyu Zhou is pictured on the right using a shovel to remove snow that covers the sea ice during a ...

Stretching from the United States and Canada all the way to Europe, quadrillions of tiny creatures are asleep, suspended in the ocean’s twilight zone. They are Calanus finmarchicus, a type of ...