ocean

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• How Hurricanes Form: The Life Cycle of a Tropical Cyclone
  Hurricanes form over warm ocean water when heat, moisture, and rotation organize a storm. Learn the ingredients, the Saffir-Simpson scale, and why storm surge kills.
• The Deep Ocean
  The largest habitat on Earth begins below 200 meters: permanent darkness, crushing pressure, food scarcity, and the strange adaptations that make life there possible.
• The Mariana Trench
  The deepest place on Earth: a subduction trench reaching 10,935 meters at Challenger Deep, with its own fauna, chemistry, and a handful of human visitors.
• Bioluminescence
  How living organisms produce cold light through luciferin-luciferase chemistry, why most glowing things live in the deep ocean, and how biologists borrowed the reaction.