Ocean darkening is rapidly spreading, squeezing marine life closer to the surface and altering ecosystems worldwide.

Plankton may be tiny, but they play an important role in the ocean. As the foundation of marine ecosystems, they support ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) is a collection of marine debris in the North Pacific, captured by four currents ...

Plankton may be tiny, but they play an important role in the ocean. As the foundation of marine ecosystems, they support ocean food webs and help regulate Earth's climate by storing carbon. While lab ...

A study conducted by researchers from the University of Plymouth and Plymouth Marine Laboratory, who have spent more than a ...

The researchers reanalyzed massive datasets of large-scale distributions of plankton-derived lipids in the ocean, which were ...

Yet these tiny organisms - called plankton - may be unable to thrive in the rapidly warming oceans, according to a pair of new studies. The decline of these microscopic creatures puts huge ...

Temperatures around the world continue to rise—and the North Sea is no exception. Yet, in addition to this gradual warming, ...

Researchers attribute coastal darkening primarily to increased nutrient and sediment runoff from agriculture and rainfall, ...

Database, is giving scientists, conservationists, and the public an unprecedented look at the true scale of ocean ...

Scientists are baffled as over 21% of the world's oceans have significantly darkened in the past two decades, largely due to ...

Deep-sea mining could unleash clouds of debris that threaten a mysterious, vital ecosystem we barely understand.