The vast, sunlit waters of the ocean’s surface, known as the photic zone, nurture 90% of marine life. Sunlight and moonlight ...

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Photosynthesis, the natural process of converting sunlight energy into chemical energy and generating molecular oxygen, is a ...

Microplastics are pervasive ocean pollutants, impacting ecosystems and human health. This article examines their lifecycle ...

A new study reveals that the aerobic nitrogen cycle in the ocean may have occurred about 100 million years before oxygen began to significantly accumulate in the atmosphere, based on nitrogen isotope ...

New research has revealed that the disappearance of sea ice is not only increasing the amount of light entering the ocean but ...

A new study has revealed that over one-fifth of the global ocean has lost sunlight in just two decades, a quiet shift with potentially profound consequences ...

More than 21% of the oceans have darkened since 2003, shrinking light zones and endangering marine life that relies on sunlight for survival ...

Research in Nature Communications suggests the contribution of ocean biology to climate regulation is more complex than ...

Tens of millions of dollars in NSF grants have been slashed, and scientists fear the US is about to lose a generation of ...

Researchers propose a variety of factors causing the ocean to go darker, including algal blooms, changes in sea surface ...

Chinese researchers have developed a groundbreaking technology that sheds light on how the three-dimensional (3D) organization of plant genomes ...