Imagine a world of darkness, where sunlight never reaches and the pressure is crushing—yet in this abyss, life flourishes in ...

By reducing the acidity of surrounding waters, seagrass ecosystems help protect animals with shells or external skeletons. In the sunlit surface layer of oceans Like land plants and seagrasses ...

This Singapore plant is one example of a slew of recent ... And when they involve the oceans — complex ecosystems already under huge strain from global warming — criticisms can get even ...

In most ecosystems, sunlight is absorbed and converted ... different primary producers (marine phytoplankton and land plants). The oceans cover a much larger area than the land, so per area ...

The four billion tons of marine organisms that global fisheries extracted from the ocean between 1960 and 2018 resulted in ...

Fewer people have been to the deepest parts of the ocean than have walked on the surface of the moon. Researchers at Carnegie ...

Ecosystems in the Southern Ocean, the body of water surrounding Antarctica, are under threat from climate change. The area's inhabitants, from whales to krill to phytoplankton, face changes such ...

Southern elephant seals are the 'canary in the coal mine' for the Southern Ocean, offering insight into how the ecosystem may react to future climate change and human impact, new research shows.

Deep-sea mining may irreparably harm ocean ecosystems before we even have a chance to fully study its impacts. That's one reason the Center has taken a lead role against deep-sea mining. We're ...