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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Between 500 and 800 lanternfish and squid were found dead or dying in the Nawiliwili Harbor area on Monday, prompting in investigation by state and federal officials into what caused the die-off. The ...

Much of the plastic we produce on land ends up contaminating the sea. But when researchers went searching for a global picture of all the plastics stuck swirling around the gyres, they found that a ...

Commercial trawlers pulled up four Japanese lanternfish, marking its first record in Taiwan and the southernmost record of the species, researchers said. Photo by Michel Stockman via Unsplash ...