The ocean plays a major role in the global carbon cycle. The driving force comes from tiny plankton that produce organic carbon through photosynthesis, like plants on land. When plankton die or are ...

Welcome to the twilight zone. It’s a real place — but under the sea. The mesopelagic zone, also known as the “twilight zone,” is a mysterious region of the ocean between 200 and 1,000 meters in depth.

Every spring in the Northern Hemisphere, the ocean surface erupts in a massive bloom of phytoplankton. Like plants, these single-celled floating organisms use photosynthesis to turn light into energy, ...

The ocean plays a major role in the global carbon cycle. The driving force comes from tiny plankton that produce organic carbon through photosynthesis, like plants on land. When plankton die or are ...

April 6 (UPI) --New research suggests the ocean's "biological carbon pump" is more efficient at absorbing carbon than scientists previously estimated. In spring, as the ocean surface in the Northern ...

PLYMOUTH, England — Earth’s oceans are losing light, and it’s happening so fast that scientists are calling it one of the planet’s largest unnoticed habitat collapses. Over the past 20 years, an area ...

A new study published in Global Change Biology reveals that over 20% of the world’s oceans have grown significantly darker between 2003 and 2022. This widespread phenomenon, driven by a range of ...

Much of the shark focus around the Cape is on great whites roaming close to the shoreline as they prowl for seals, but researchers are finding out that several sharks are actually diving deep into the ...

Just as TV producer Rod Serling took his audiences to "a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man … an area which we call the twilight zone," the royal research ship James Cook has taken ...

The big idea — The ocean plays a major role in the global carbon cycle. The driving force comes from tiny plankton that produces organic carbon through photosynthesis, like plants on land. When ...