An international team looks back 12 million years for clues about the formation of these vast areas where no life can survive A satellite image of the Northern Gulf of Mexico, where 'dead zones' can ...

Imagine descending into the ocean’s deep, dark twilight zone, a realm straight out of science fiction. Here, in a place where ...

Ocean depth is divided into zones: littoral, bathyal, abyssal and hadal. The deepest part of the ocean, the hadal zone, is anywhere deeper than six kilometres. What is the average depth of the ocean?

Scientists uncover shocking pollution and rare species in the Pacific Ocean. Learn how human activity affects marine life and why immediate action is needed.

The open ocean’s twilight zone, a vast deep ecosystem rich in fish biomass, is poorly understood because it is expensive and challenging for humans to reach its depths 200–1000 meters (660 ...