在这个被称为“暮光区”的海洋区域，生活着地球上数量最庞大的生物种群。此前，科学家通过声呐探测发现，这里每晚都会发生地球上规模最大的生物迁徙——数以亿计的小型鱼虾在夜色掩护下涌向表层觅食，黎明前再退回深海。但是，研究背景中的核心矛盾在于，科学家在观测大白鲨（Great white ...

Every second of last year, the Earth’s oceans absorbed the equivalent in energy to 12 Hiroshima-sized atomic bombs. Global ...

A spectacular fossil trove on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen shows that marine life made a stunning comeback after Earth’s ...

Decomposition is essential to all ecosystems, both on land and in the ocean. In marine environments, decomposition and ...

The ocean increasingly suffers the effects of absorbing over 90 percent of the excess heat trapped by greenhouse-gases and about one-quarter of annual carbon dioxide emissions.

The understanding of jellyfish ecology has broadened considerably in recent years, reshaping our perceptions of marine ecosystems. Once deemed trophic dead ends with minimal influence, jellyfish are ...

Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have already leveraged the vast troves of geolocation data from vessel-tracking systems to pinpoint where whales and other large marine species ...

The ocean is facing unprecedented challenges. From pollution to the loss of vital oyster reefs, marine life is struggling to ...

The vast, sunlit waters of the ocean’s surface, known as the photic zone, nurture 90% of marine life. Sunlight and moonlight in this crucial region guide marine creatures and maintain global ...

In the 20th century, people’s demand for whale blubber and baleen drove industrial whalers to kill roughly three million whales—a whopping 99 percent of the world’s large whale population. The ...

Coccolithophores, tiny planktonic architects of Earth’s climate, capture carbon, produce oxygen, and leave behind geological records that chronicle our planet’s history. European scientists are ...