Case in point: Scientists from Tokyo University and Hokkaido University in Japan stumbled across some mysterious jet-black ...

In addition to this, more than 9% of the ocean—an area of more than 32 million sq km, similar in size to the continent of Africa—had seen photic zone depths reducing by more than 50 meters ...

A groundbreaking study in the journal Science, has unveiled how deep ocean currents—known as global overturning ...

Over the past two decades, more than one-fifth of the world's oceans, an area exceeding 75 million square kilometers, have ...

Ocean zones. Most ocean life lives above a depth of 660 feet. Nuclear submarines hover around 850 feet below the surface. Whales aren’t usually seen below about 8,200 feet.

Ocean depths. About 71% of the Earth is covered in water and the average depth is 12,080 feet — which is nearly as deep as Mount Fuji is tall, ... The depths of the ocean are broken into zones.

The carbonate compensation depth — a zone where high pressure and low temperature creates conditions so acidic it dissolves shell and skeleton — could make up half of the global ocean by the ...

Is the ocean getting darker? New research found 21% of the global ocean had experienced a reduction in the depth of its lit zones, which are home to 90% of all marine life, during the past 20 years ...

Only about 20% of the ocean’s depths has been mapped by humans. Here’s what we do — and don’t — know about the deep seas and why studying them is so precarious.

Since the industrial revolution, this zone has risen for all parts of the ocean, varying from almost no rise in the western Indian Ocean to more than 300 metres in the northwest Atlantic. If the ...