Despite global reductions in mercury emissions, mercury concentrations in Arctic wildlife continue to rise. A study published ...

Art often imitates life, and sometimes animals do, too. The enormous jellyfish seen in this YouTube video bears a striking ...

More than one-fifth of the global ocean—an area spanning more than 75 million sq km—has been the subject of ocean darkening over the past two decades, according to new research.

Ocean darkening occurs when changes in the optical properties of the ocean reduce the depth of its photic zones, ... of the ocean, animals that need light will be ... Arctic and Antarctic, areas ...

The Pacific Ocean is by far the world's largest ocean, more than five times wider than our moon. But why is the Pacific so ...

A new assessment finds that the world’s oceans crossed the safe threshold for acidification in 2020, breaching a key ...

Is the ocean getting darker? New research found 21% of the global ocean had experienced a reduction in the depth of its lit zones, which are home to 90% of all marine life, during the past 20 years ...

The ocean is darkening. Researchers say more than a fifth of the planet’s ocean — which makes up 70 percent of the surface of the Earth — has been subject to the darkening process over the course of ...

Researchers warn that four major ocean basins have crossed the acidification threshold, shrinking critical habitats for ...

For World Ocean's Day, we're taking a look at how human activity could be contributing to darker oceans, and what that may mean for marine life.

The Pacific Ocean is by far the world's largest ocean, more than five times wider than our moon. But why is the Pacific so big? The predecessor of the Pacific Ocean was Panthalassa, or the ...

The federal government is heading an international coalition to protect marine life from rising underwater noise, but ...