This suggests neither the pelagic nor the benthic zone provides the combination of resources required for microalgal growth. Nutrient mineralization in aggregates could bridge this apparent spatial ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is now so packed with long-lasting plastic that dozens of coastal species are living, breeding and spreading on it — forming a new 'neopelagic' ecosystem that could ...

One of Earth's largest habitats could see its rich diversity of life reduced by the end of the century due to the climate crisis. One of Earth's largest habitats could see its rich diversity of life ...

Welcome to the twilight zone. It’s a real place — but under the sea. The mesopelagic zone, also known as the “twilight zone,” is a mysterious region of the ocean between 200 and 1,000 meters in depth.

Hundreds of feet below the ocean’s surface, somewhere between the dark ocean floor and the bright blue shallows, lies the twilight zone. It’s a world of the unknown, but in some tropical and ...

Thanks to sophisticated submarines scouting the ocean’s depths nonstop, bizarre creatures are constantly coming to light. This siphonophore, for example, was so odd scientists described it as having a ...

A particularly large hypoxic zone in the Pacific Ocean has experts concerned for the future of oceanic ecosystems in the face of climate change. “It’s one of the horsemen of climate change in the sea, ...

Before the perpetual dark of the deep sea, in the space at the final reaches of daylight, is the ocean twilight zone. It is one of the final frontiers for Earth exploration, and as researchers delve ...