With careful planning and a little luck, researchers found a surprising upside to hurricanes after a Category 4 storm ...

Big animals of the ocean go about their days mostly hidden from view. Scientists know these marine megafauna—such as whales, ...

An international team looks back 12 million years for clues about the formation of these vast areas where no life can survive ... where 'dead zones' can reach the size of New Jersey. Photo Credit: ...

This is not a scene from a fantasy film, but a nightly spectacle happening deep beneath the ocean’s surface ... Exploring the twilight zone is no easy task. The crushing pressure, frigid ...

Seafood shoppers might notice higher prices, recreational divers and snorkelers will find murkier waters, and even worse; ...

If the U.S. wants to secure critical minerals it should invest in mining and processing facilities on home soil rather than ...

Since the industrial revolution, this zone has risen for all parts of the ocean, varying from almost no rise in the western Indian Ocean to more than 980 feet (300 m) in the northwest Atlantic.

The twilight zone, or mesopelagic layer, is a hauntingly beautiful stretch of ocean where light diminishes rapidly with depth. Sunlight here is too faint for photosynthesis, leaving a perpetual ...

with no recovery for several millennia. 'We still know relatively little about the ocean twilight zone, but using evidence from the past we can understand what may happen in the future,' said lead ...

The ocean's twilight zone is deep, dark, and -- according to new research -- iron deficient. No sunlight reaches this ... author of the article. "In other words, experiments near the surface ...

The ocean’s mesopelagic ... researches the twilight zone and the mesophotic zone just above it, located between 98 and 492 feet (30 and 150 meters) below the surface. “There are no baseline ...