The ocean is home to some of the most awe-inspiring creatures, and recently, a massive whale shark, the world’s largest fish, ...

A 2016 report by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation claimed that by 2050 there would be 850 tons of plastic in the oceans and ...

The researchers studied tissue from over 120 fish. They found that 50 to 60 percent of their diet came from ocean’s twilight ...

The four billion tons of marine organisms that global fisheries extracted from the ocean between 1960 and ... tons of essential nutrients vital to ecosystem health, new research has found.

The open ocean’s twilight zone, a vast deep ecosystem rich in fish biomass, is poorly understood because it is expensive and challenging for humans to reach its depths 200–1000 meters (660 ...

Marine heatwaves can devastate our oceans. Is there a way to prevent them? What are marine heatwaves and why are they so ...

Fewer people have been to the deepest parts of the ocean than have walked on the surface of the moon. Researchers at Carnegie ...

This ecosystem is home to zooplankton—tiny animals that drift with ocean currents—and micronekton, which includes small fish, squid and crustaceans that rely on zooplankton for food.

(Alex Ingle/Schmidt Ocean Institute) Esquete and her colleagues have documented a surprisingly lush and diverse marine ecosystem that includes corals, sponges, fish, giant sea spiders, octopuses ...