The team examined the chemical composition of ocean sediments near today’s largest ocean dead zone, located in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The team obtained sediment samples—the “history books” of ...

Satellite data reveals 21% of oceans have darkened, affecting photic zones and marine life. Researchers warn of severe ...

The Atacama Trench, located off the coast of Peru and Chile, is one of the deepest oceanic regions on our planet, and ...

This is an ocean planet. And every company—whether it realizes it or not—depends on the biodiversity, food systems, and ...

Rhythmic pulsing deep beneath landlocked east Africa is literally tearing the continent apart. But while the effects won’t ...

Scientists had determined that ocean acidification enters this danger zone or crosses this planetary boundary when the amount ...

The ocean twilight zone, or mesopelagic zone, is the area of the ocean 600 to 3,200 feet below the surface. It’s where light begins to disappear, but it’s home to some of the most amazing ...

The researches say that the Hycean Habitable Zone (HHZ), when compared to the terrestrial habitable zone, may include smaller ...

Tidal heating on hycean (ocean) worlds can significantly shift their habitable zones (HZ) outward, resulting in smaller HZs than previously estimated based solely on stellar radiation.

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology presents ...