Darkening oceans could cause massive problems for marine life, and over 21% of the ocean has grown darker in the last 20 ...

Ocean darkening is rapidly spreading, squeezing marine life closer to the surface and altering ecosystems worldwide.

A deep-sea training and engineering dive off the coast of San Diego provided an opportunity for never-before-seen imagery of ...

Where does the deep sea begin? Definitions vary across science and legal frameworks. For the purposes of their joint analysis, the members of the European Marine Board's (EMB) Deep Sea and Ocean ...

For around 2,000 years, global sea levels hardly varied. That changed in the twentieth century. Sea levels started rising and have not stopped since — and now, the pace is accelerating.

Sea ice mediates the heat exchanged between the ocean and the atmosphere (Fig. 1). In the summer, this ice reflects most of the radiation from the Sun, preventing it from reaching and warming the ...

Earth’s oceans rose faster than expected last year as the world experienced its hottest year on record, NASA says. People walk through water in a flooded area affected by rising sea levels and ...