The four billion tons of marine organisms that global fisheries extracted from the ocean between 1960 and ... tons of essential nutrients vital to ecosystem health, new research has found.

They’re doing that with an assist from satellites. In 2024, NASA launched the new PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem) satellite, with a special Ocean Color Instrument (OCI ...

Researchers with the Center for Transformational Play at Carnegie Mellon University have created a virtual reality experience called “Echo of the Abyss” - this VR technology takes players on an ocean ...

This has led to an uncontrolled rise in Cape fur seals and sevengill sharks, severely impacting fish populations and emphasizing the crucial role of apex predators in marine ecosystem stability.

More information: Kieran Murphy et al, Developing a Southern Ocean Marine Ecosystem Model Ensemble to Assess Climate Risks and Uncertainties, Earth's Future (2025). DOI: 10.1029/2024EF004849 ...

Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet—where creatures glow and life survives under crushing pressure. This is the midwater zone, a hidden ecosystem that begins 650 ...

(Alex Ingle/Schmidt Ocean Institute) Esquete and her colleagues have documented a surprisingly lush and diverse marine ecosystem that includes corals, sponges, fish, giant sea spiders, octopuses ...

A previously hidden under-sea ecosystem has been revealed after an iceberg broke away from the George VI Ice Shelf, a massive glacier on the Antarctic ice sheet. Researchers from Schmidt Ocean ...

The ecosystem is the site of several underwater gullies. Photograph by ROV SuBastian, Schmidt Ocean Institute Normally, deep-sea ecosystems get their nutrients from the sea surface, which sprinkle ...

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“Sadly, North Atlantic right whales and North Pacific right whales are two species that are still critically endangered, and their influence on ocean ecosystems is greatly reduced. So there are ...