Driftnets were banned by the United Nations three decades ago due to the damage they cause to fish and other marine life.

"A changing climate creates new winners and losers in every ecosystem."

The report offers a blueprint for the most effective ways to protect the ocean from such activities.

"...the long‐held assumption that the surface oceans' volume remained nearly constant through geologic time may need to be reassessed."

Scientists can't pinpoint what is causing these deficiencies, but they are sure humans are to blame.

Researchers say their findings could help reimagine where we look for extraterrestrial life.

Freshwater fish — an important source of protein in the global food supply — could find themselves struggling to procreate and survive.

Some corals glow bright after a warm ocean spell, rather than bleaching and dying, as a final effort to help attract algae.

Known as a siphonophore Apolemia, it looks like an "incredible U.F.O," a researcher said.

It would be the third such mass coral bleaching to hit the world's largest reef system in five years.

"A single thread [of plastic] in the stomach of a larval fish is potentially a killer."

Most of Mumbai, and other coastal Asian cities, will be submerged.

A change in ocean chemistry is also endangering marine ecosystems, reducing seafood supplies.

Experts say the high concentration of glowing phytoplankton off the coast is a sign of environmental damage.

Chitin, a tough material found in crustacean shells, has plastic-like properties and degrades within a few months.