In the midst of the COVID pandemic, scientists embarked on an ambitious research expedition to the North Atlantic to ...
Some of the ocean's tiniest organisms get swept into underwater currents that act as a conduit that shuttles them from the sunny surface to deeper, darker depths where they play a huge role in ...
In the South China Sea, near the Paracel Islands, the aqua-colored waters of an expansive shallow reef platform suddenly ...
The multilayer water sampler that was installed on the training vessel Umitaka-maru. The device collects about 50 liters of seawater at different ocean depths, which is then analyzed for small ...
On the way down, much is captured by filter-feeding animals, with the rest settling on the ocean floor as a thick, oozy layer ...
Plastic waste has haunted the world’s oceans for decades. What you may not realize is that the most dangerous pieces are often the ones you never see. Far below the ocean’s glittering surface, ...
New research shows how tiny plant-like organisms hitch a ride on ocean currents to reach darker and deeper depths, where they impact carbon cycling and microbial dynamics in the subtropical oceans The ...