It's spring, the sun is shining and something is about to happen with the plankton in the cold waters of the Arctic Ocean.

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The phenomenon of 'dark oxygen,' whereby deep-sea metallic nodules generate oxygen without sunlight, is reshaping our understanding of oceanic processes.

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So far, the team has carried out China's first large-scale seagrass bed restoration projects, including those in Tangshan, ...

Environments are littered with the DNA of the creatures that inhabit them. Analyzing it could provide a real-time view of how ...

Of 15 global Earth system models of how climate change will impact oceans, those that project a future decline in primary ...

Projections of our future under climate change paint a picture of extreme weather and acidified oceans, a world many of today ...

Scientists track Antarctic krill via satellite to monitor ocean health amid climate change and fishing threats.

The shock discovery that metallic nodules could be producing oxygen in the deep sea made headlines last year – now the team behind it is launching a new project to confirm and explain the findings ...

Most life on Earth relies on the sun’s energy for survival, but what about organisms in the deep sea that live beyond the ...