Though burning fossil fuels is the primary cause of global warming, fossil fuels could also be driving climate change via a completely different mechanism involving ocean plastic debris and tiny, ...

LIHUE — Up to 1,000 small lanternfish and a smaller number of squid washed ashore Monday along Kalapaki Beach, on Kauai’s south-east coast. “Why they came up there, we have no idea right now,” said ...

Commercial fishing vessels trawling the waters off the coast of Taiwan pulled in several deep-sea creatures never before reported in the region. Four Japanese lanternfish were collected from ...

Lanternfish have tiny organs known as photophores, inside which a chemical reaction takes place to give off bioluminescent light. These fish live in one of the largest ecosystems on earth: the ...

Plastic is the dominant trash in the ocean, and has been found just about everywhere people have looked, from the supposedly pristine Antarctic seafloor to the Mariana trench, the deepest point on ...

A recent study published in Communications Earth & Environment provides a stark warning about the ocean’s future: the looming oxygen crisis may threaten key marine species, including the crucial ...

An international study led by the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB), Spain, has investigated how marine ecosystems responded to past ...

Humans aren’t above eating plastic. Little kids try to do it all the time. And you know you’ve accidentally eaten some tiny bit of sticker that was still attached to a grocery store vegetable. So we ...

KOCHI: With the fall in marine catches, especially Indian oil sardines, fisheries scientists are proposing a new deep sea fish as an alternative food source in the conventional fish items. During an ...