The Ocean Encounter explores the various zones and habitats of the ocean and how families can help protect them. It will be visiting the center through Sept. 4. Driving home the message of how ...

More than one-fifth of the global ocean—an area spanning more than 75 million sq km—has been the subject of ocean darkening ...

Touch a Shark, Save the Ocean—Discovery Cube’s “Ocean Encounter” Makes a Splash This Summer If your kids are obsessed with ...

The brand new exhibit gives an educational look at Earth’s ocean zones while learning about marine ... providing lots of hands-on activities for kids. “Giving people access to the ocean ...

They did a large-scale beach cleanup in coordination with Orange County Coastkeeper for Kids Ocean Day, an annual statewide celebration and call to action for the ocean. It’s sponsored by the ...

Much like the Earth’s atmosphere, the ocean can be described in terms of layers. The uppermost portion is called the epipelagic zone, or the sunlight zone, and extends just 660 feet (200 meters ...

Photo Credit: NASA Oxygen-starved ocean “dead zones,” where fish and animals cannot survive, have been expanding in the open ocean and coastal waters for several decades as a result of human ...

The ocean’s mesopelagic zone, also called the “twilight zone,” is located between 656 feet and 3,280 feet (200 meters to 1,000 meters) below the surface. The marine region, which accounts ...

In the last 50 years, oxygen-deficient zones in the open ocean have increased. Scientists have attributed this development to rising global temperatures: Less oxygen dissolves in warmer water, and the ...