Photo Credit: NASA Oxygen-starved ocean “dead zones,” where fish and animals cannot survive, have been expanding in the open ocean and coastal waters for several decades as a result of human ...

Plastic dust is polluting the global environment: Microplastics – particles less than 5 mm in diameter – have been detected not only in in soils, freshwaters, and the ocean, but also in the air that ...

Martin told me she would army crawl up to the turtles on the sand and dab around their eyes with a foam swab, soaking up the ...

And yet, the DNA was everywhere — in the open ocean, along the coast, in the tropics, and the Arctic. "We were chasing this organism from a piece of DNA for a long time." The DNA also appeared ...

Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet narrate an exploration of the exotic and rarely seen ecosystems that thrive in the deepest sections of the ocean. Divers photograph the most colorful undersea life, ...

They were then taken up by a cell and have evolved over time in symbiosis with the host cell. These "endosymbionts" lost their ability to function autonomously in the process. One well-known ...