On occasion, it is of vital importance to consider how little we know about the spinning rock we all live on. Take coral ...

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At the UN Ocean Conference in Nice, Secretary-General Guterres cautioned against turning the deep oceans into a "wild west," amid debates on seabed mining regulations. President Macron advocated ...

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Three American ships were sunk in the Coral Sea in 1942 with the loss of more than 600 lives. The well-preserved wrecks have been added to the National Heritage Register. It has been more than 80 ...

Unfortunately, the same deep waters that delivered nutrients also carried low oxygen levels. These oxygen minimum zones, usually found over 100 meters below the surface, rose rapidly. At one site, ...

When Victoria Glynn came to Panama to study the effects of extreme ocean temperatures on coral reefs at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) as a pre-doctoral fellow in professor ...

Every day, upwards of a quadrillion (a million billion) of them migrate through the water column, returning to their deep-sea home with a collective 2-6 gigatons of carbon every year.

Victoria Glynn’s illustrations show the complex relationships between the coral animal, and the algae and bacteria that live with the coral. Taken together, this is called the coral holobiont ...

Another rare fish washes up onto a sandy beach. This year, humans have had many encounters with sea life that we do not and should not often see. First, social media freaked out after a deep-sea fish, ...