The oceans are losing their light – and with it, possibly their life. A new study reveals more than 20% of the Earth's oceans, an area larger than Asia, has darkened over the last two decades. These ...

More than 4 million acres of marine life habitat have become a "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the lives of fish and other marine animals, NOAA said on Thursday. Although this is an ...

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 ...

How will global warming impact marine ecosystems? This is a critical question when addressing future climate change. Sustained climate change may have a particularly large negative effect on one of ...

Science has made it clear: The prospect of heat waves without end, increasingly destructive floods, relentless drought, rapidly rising sea levels, and the risk of “point of no return” tipping points ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. There is broad recognition that the oceans and their living resources are under stress ...

Beneath Mumbai’s bustling coastline lies a hidden ecosystem where crabs, starfish, and marine organisms continue to thrive ...

James J Bell receives funding from the Department of Conservation, the Greater Wellington Regional Council, Centerport, The George Mason Charitable Trust and The Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden ...

Among the myriad creatures that populate our ocean, some stand out as having an outsized impact on the marine environment—shaping and maintaining habitats that themselves sustain countless other forms ...