Mesoscale eddies, oceanic gyres about 100 kilometers in diameter, are ubiquitous features of the global ocean and play a ...

A storm, even once it has passed, can leave traces in the ocean that last for thousands of years. These consist of sediment layers composed of coarse particles, which are different from the finer ...

The Saya de Malha Bank is one of the world’s largest seagrass fields and the planet’s most important carbon sinks. It faces incalculable risks that threaten the future of humanity.

Ocean warming and acidification threaten key ocean plankton groups, study warns Nov 13, 2024 Study provides insight into how some species thrive in dark, oxygen-free environments ...

The artwork, created by Singaporean artist Lakshmi Mohanbabu in collaboration with tech company NuStar and NTU Singapore, has been deployed 7 kilometers (4.3 miles) beneath the sea. Singapore has ...

Rhythmic clicks, grunts and roars fill the Año Nuevo Island Reserve in California, home to a large breeding colony of ...

Arête Glacier Initiative has raised $5 million to improve forecasts of sea-level rise and explore the possibility of ...

NCP is part of the ocean’s biological pump — it refers to the portion of phytoplankton production exported from the euphotic zone, the well sunlit surface layer of the ocean, to the twilight zone ...

The twilight, or mesopelagic, zone — the layer of ocean water that extends 200–1000 ... They also looked back five decades in time and identified periods of very low fish abundance in 1984 ...

A hidden ecosystem of giant sea spiders, octopuses, and other stunning sea creatures shows how life can flourish even when sealed off from the surface by a thick layer of ice.

New tools enable side-by-side comparison of subsea data sets and real-time collaboration on data views and layers in the Absolute Ocean Platform. Terradepth, a leader in autonomous subsea ...

The study suggests that even the faintest hint of penguin droppings in the water is enough to prompt krill into escape ...