A recent study published in the Journal of Climate reveals that two distinct bands in the world’s oceans are warming at ...

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 ocean creatures ... dives headfirst into the ocean’s five distinct zones, ...

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 ...

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 ...

And ocean dead zones are what they sound like ... disproportionately affecting kids living in poverty? Briefly, industrial agriculture, the Farm Bill, corporate lobbyists, and taxpayer subsidies ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...