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 ...

The researchers studied tissue from over 120 fish. They found that 50 to 60 percent of their diet came from ocean’s twilight ...

much of that water ends up flowing straight into our coastal zones. According to one school of thought, pollutants are diluted to safe levels by the time they reach the open ocean. But are the ...

Ocean water expands as it warms, researchers said. Climate change was a major driver to an unexpected level of sea level rise in 2024, according to a new NASA analysis. Global sea levels rose 0.23 ...

The twilight, or mesopelagic, zone — the layer of ocean water that extends 200–1000 meters (656–3280 feet) deep — is an inhospitable place. “It’s completely dark, it’s extremely cold ...