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The Ross Sea is a 1.9 million square mile (3.6 million square km) stretch of ocean off the coast of Antarctica.
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Map of the Ross Sea

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Of the eight million metric tons of plastic dumped in the ocean every year, much of it ends up on beaches like this one in Tanzania. But some companies are working to change that high statistic.
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Trash On a Tanzanian Beach

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A shimmering bobtail squid.
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Bobtail Squid Shimmers

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Zooplankton are small—but do you know just how small? This drop of water smaller than the eye of a needle is magnified 20x and contains multitudes.
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Zooplankton in the Eye of a Needle

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Illustration of copepods from Ernst Haeckel.
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Copepods

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A golden bass with sand in the background.
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Golden Bass - Liopropoma santi

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Dispersant in the Deep: Dispersants, soap-like chemicals that cause oil to mix with water more easily, have been used with success to remove oil after a spill on the ocean's surface. But Deepwater Horizon wasn't a surface spill; instead, oil spewed into th
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Oil Spewing From Macondo Well

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This photograph of Gerardia sp. was taken at the Cross Seamount in the Pacific Ocean at a depth of 400 m (1,312 feet).
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Gold Coral Close-up

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Scientists discovered this 1.5-m (5-ft) tall yellow bamboo coral in 2007 off the coast of Hawaii in 1,459 m (4,787 ft) of water.
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New Bamboo Coral Discovery

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Lights attached to this deep-sea camera system enable scientists to capture detailed images of deep-sea corals in otherwise dark water.
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Deep-Sea Camera

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Photo of coral polyp, with a single bleach polyp.
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Corals Threatened by Acid Seas

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A school of Hawaiian squirrelfish.
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A School of Hawaiian Squirrelfish

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