Sunlight Zone 0 m - 200 m top layer of the ocean where there is enough sunlight for photosynthesis; hence plants tuna, sharks, dolphin, jellyfish, plankton Twilight Zone 200 m - 1000 m a dim zone ...

While humans are getting ready to go back to Moon and various technologies are being tested on Mars as we speak, there's little we know about our own home, specifically our oceans. Dubbed Mesobot, ...

The mesopelagic zone is the chilly, dimly lit layer of ocean found 200-1,000 meters (660-3,300 feet) below the surface, which ...

: [POST-BROADCAST CORRECTION Aug. 4, 2025: A previous version of this report incorrectly said that there are phytoplankton in the upper layer of the atmosphere. Phytoplankton live in the upper layer ...

After more than a century acting as a climate buffer, the Southern Ocean may be preparing to release a vast store of heat, ...

Scientists have recently described a layer of the deep ocean zone as the “rariphotic,” calling it home to an array of unidentified reef fish and a refuge for species from shallower waters drive out of ...

Thousands of feet below the crashing surface of the North Pacific ocean, there’s a dark place where the water stands still. Scientists call it the Shadow Zone, and they’re not just being dramatic. In ...

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 ...

Deep-sea mining is the extraction of minerals from the seabed in the deep ocean. Most of the interest is in what are known as polymetallic nodules, which are potato-sized mineral deposits that have ...

It's been proposed, and I believe a test pilot is under way. The Swedish government is funding research into dead zone oxygenation for the Baltic Sea. Can oxygen pump breathe life into ocean 'dead ...