Photo Credit: NASA Oxygen-starved ocean “dead zones,” where fish and animals cannot survive, have been expanding in the open ocean and coastal waters for several decades as a result of human ...

Researchers enlist animals' help to pierce the mysteries of the twilight zone of the sea: 'It was really exciting' first ...

Scientists have a different idea of the twilight zone. To them, it’s an area of the open ocean where most fish live – depths of 650 to 3,200 feet. Little is known about this part of the ocean ...

Coastal seas form a complex transition zone between the two largest CO 2 ... of CO 2 uptake is higher in coastal seas than in the open ocean. This is evidenced by a study published in the journal ...

“The deep open ocean is a sensitive environment and changing temperatures would essentially shift the balance of the ecosystem that anglerfishes have adapted to exploit,” Chase ...

extending at least 5km into the open ocean. The seamounts in the study are all within the Ascension Island Marine Protected Area -- a 445,000 square km zone where no large-scale commercial fishing ...