The Arctic Ocean is more than just icy waters, it harbors vibrant ecosystems — but it also harbors valuable oil, gas, and ...

This weekend the M209 expedition ‘BASIS’ led by GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel has started. An international team is investigating the largely unexplored deep seas off the Cape Verde ...

With documented swimming speeds of up to 46 miles per hour, mako sharks represent the world’s fastest elasmobranch species.

Shanghai Jiao Tong University along with multiple collaborating institutions including the University of Copenhagen and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, have conducted an extensive investigation ...

Foraminifera are single-celled marine organisms with a calcareous shell. They not only provide evidence of past habitats, but also play an important role in sediment formation. Along tropical and ...

These mineral ores are formed over millions of years from metals dissolved in the ocean water or released ... traces in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone and the Peru Basin indicate that mining will ...

Coral reefs, benthic life, and a huge variety of ocean fish take advantage of these ... through the aphotic zone all the way to the gigantic abyssal plain. Much of the abyssal plain is between ...

Every year, Scripps Benthic Invertebrate Collection Curator Greg Rouse and ... It lives right in the surf zone and was first collected from San Francisquito. This new species was found in shallow ...

Cobia catch rates have fallen off in the South Atlantic—off Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina—and there is rising ...

Description is available under license CC-BY-SA IGO 3.0 Îles et aires protégées du Golfe de Californie Le site comprend 244 îles, îlots et zones côtières situées ... are nutrient-rich upwelling ...

Dungeness crab, red abalone, Pacific herring, pink shrimp, and Pismo clam were among those ultimately placed in the red zone ... ocean chemistry can devastate its populations. The fishery’s closure in ...