Using data from 2003 to 2022, the team found nearly 10% of the ocean’s photic zone has been squeezed by 50 m (164 ft). More dramatically, photic zones in some oceans have shrunk by 100 m (328 ft).

The study found in nearly 10 percent of the world's oceans, the depth of the photic zone has shrunk by more than 50 meters (164 feet). This means that three-dimensional habitat has become a lot ...

"If the photic zone is reducing by around 50 m in large swathes of the ocean, animals that need light will be forced closer to the surface where they will have to compete for food and the other ...

The photic zone, which is 200 meters deep, is where global nutrients and carbon budgets sustain the planetary fish markets. This is the area where light reaches marine life that lives closer to ...

If the photic zone is reducing by around 50m in large swathes of the ocean, animals that need light will be forced closer to the surface where they will have to compete for food and the other ...

If the photic zone is reducing by around 50m in large swathes of the ocean, animals that need light will be forced closer to the surface where they will have to compete for food and the other ...

Researchers observed darkening in the photic zone of the oceans, where light filters through water in a sufficient enough way to sustain species that rely on sunlight and moonlight.

“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 ...

Researchers observed darkening in the photic zone of the oceans, where light filters through water in a sufficient enough way to sustain species that rely on sunlight and moonlight.

Between 2003 and 2022, roughly 30 million square miles of ocean saw photic zones darken. That’s the same size as Europe, Africa, China and North America’s land areas combined.