For a decade, scientists have believed that plants sense temperature mainly through specialized proteins, and mainly at night ...

As jewelflowers spread into California from the desert Southwest over the past couple of million years, they settled in ...

Most foraminiferan species reside on the seafloor, but paleontologists are particularly interested in planktonic species, ...

A type of lichen was able to survive extreme UV radiation in the lab, suggesting that ozone protection might not be required for life on exoplanets.

Once upon a time, it was thought by many, most, and maybe all of us humanoids that the sea was big enough to swallow and ...

Study by Plymouth researchers shows 21 per cent of the ocean has dimmed in two decades, endangering life dependent on natural light.

The photic zone extends roughly 200 meters below the ocean's surface, forming the base for countless marine ecosystems. But a recent study published in Global Change Biology shows alarming changes.

The photic zone is the topmost layer of the ocean, where light from the Sun (including that reflected off the Moon) permeates the water. All marine organisms that photosynthesize – seagrasses, kelps, ...

It’s estimated that 90% of marine life lives in this zone, which typically extends to a depth of 200 meters. Less sunlight means the vital species that live there might suffer, potentially ...

The photic zone, which is 200 meters ... The upper level of the ocean is where microscopic organisms and different types of plankton live.

“If the photic zone is reducing by around 50 meters [55 yards} in large swathes of the ocean, animals that need light will be forced closer to the surface where they will have to compete for ...